Feb. 7, 2025

Trump's Super Bowl Circus: Taylor vs Trump, Fake Football History

Patrick Gutfield dissects Trump's wild Super Bowl week, from his Taylor Swift feud to inventing a fake coaching history with Tommy Tuberville. Plus: Why Dawn Staley can't watch her Eagles thanks to Air Force One, and how Trump's presence at the Super...

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Callaroga Shark Media from New Orleans.

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The only city where the pregame warm up is finding

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your way back from Bourbon Street.

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This is ballot, that's right.

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I tried to get super Bowl tickets, but my bank

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account just laughed and hung up on me.

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Let's hit this. Hi.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield and welcome to our super Bowl preview.

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Travis Kelcey just called it a great honor to have

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Donald Trump at the super Bowl.

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This is wild.

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Trump literally went after Taylor Swift on truth social saying

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I hate Taylor Swift. That's not even the coded language

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politicians usually use. That's what a thirteen year old writes

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in their diary about the popular girl at school. And

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Trump said Swift would pay the price in the marketplace,

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which really shows how well he understands her fan base. Yeah,

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Swifties are definitely going to abandon their queen because Check's notes,

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the guy who tried to overturn an election doesn't like her.

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But Travis is playing this perfectly diplomatic.

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When asked about Trump coming, he said, that's awesome, which

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is exactly what you say when your girlfriend's nemesis shows

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up to your biggest career moment. It's the same tone

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you use when your mom tells you your ex is

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coming to Thanksgiving. Patrick Mahomes is playing it cool about

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Trump coming to the Super Bowl, saying it's always cool

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to play in front of a sitting president, which sounds

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way more diplomatic than it's always cool to play in

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front of the guy who keeps posting about how much

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he likes my wife. On truth Social, Trump won't say

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who he's rooting for, just that there's a certain quarterback

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that seems to be a pretty good winner. Classic Trump move,

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trying to both support Mahomes while also leaving room to

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claim he meant the Eagles if things go south. He's

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hedging his bets harder than a garden Maze. Designer Travis

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called it an honor to have Trump there, which might

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make for an awkward conversation with Taylor later. I imagine

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that chat going something like, hey, babe, remember that guy

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who said he hates you and that you'll pay the

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price in the marketplace?

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Well, funny story.

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The real winner here is Britney Mahomes, who went from

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liking Trump's Instagram posts to having him thank her on

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truth Social. She's basically the Helen of Troy of social

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media engagement. One little double tap and suddenly everyone's choosing sides.

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The truth is, this Super Bowl has everything Taylor Swift,

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Donald Trump, and seventy eight thousand drunk Saints fans who

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are only there because their.

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Teams stadium got picked.

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It's like the beginning of a joke where three people

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walk into a bar, except the bar is the Caesar Superdome,

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and the bartender wants to annex Gaza. So here's a

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story that's wilder than the time I convinced my friend

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that Alaska and Hawaii were actually right next to each other,

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because that's how they appear on most maps. President Trump

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just gave us his own unique version of sports history,

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claiming Tommy Tuberville coach Patrick Mahomes, which would be amazing

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if it were true, kind of like claiming Abraham Link

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and invented the forward pass. Let's break this down. Trump's

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praising Tuberville at this signing ceremony, calling him a great coach,

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which okay, fair enough, but then he goes full sports

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fantasy talking about how Mahomes was Tuberville's quarterback. He even

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quotes Tuberville supposedly saying he made me into a great coach.

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Now here's the reality check. When Tuberville left Texas Tech

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in twenty twelve, Mahomes was still in high school, probably

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trying to figure out how to ask someone to prom

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not leading a college football team.

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He wasn't even playing quarterback yet.

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He was like a superhero before getting bitten by the

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radioactive football.

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But wait, it gets better.

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Tuberville had claimed he recruited Mahomes to Texas Tech. That's

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like me claiming I discovered coffee because I once walked

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past the Starbucks. According to factcheckers, Texas Tech didn't even

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start recruiting Mahomes until after Tuberville had packed his bags

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and headed to Cincinnati. This whole thing is like one

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of those fishing stories where the fish keeps getting bigger

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every time you tell it, except instead of a fish,

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it's a connection to one of the NFL's best quarterbacks.

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Next thing, you know, someone's going.

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To claim they taught Tom Brady how to throw in kindergarten,

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and then that person will try to annex Greenland Eagles

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super fan Down Staley can't make it to watch her

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Eagles because Trump's visit means restricted airspace after coaching Texas,

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she planned to fly in faster than a Jalen Hurts

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touchdown run. But now she's stuck watching like the rest

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of US peasants who can't afford tickets. She told reporters

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she'll have a party instead, which is what we all

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say when we can't go somewhere. It's like when you

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tell your friends, actually, I prefer watching at home while

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eating microwave nachos in your Eagles jersey from two thousand

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and eight. And how perfect is this the one time

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the Eagles make the Super Bowl when she could actually attend,

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the President decides to make history by showing up. That's

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Philadelphia luck right there. Even when you're a legendary coach

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with three national titles.

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You still can't catch a break.

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But Staley's keeping that Philly spirit alive, rocking an Eagles

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visor at practice and telling fans when the clock strikes zero,

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we will be winners, which is probably what Trump tells

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everyone about the doomsday clock, though honestly, in Philly, zero

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on the clock usually means there's still three minutes of

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arguing with the refs left.

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We've got some more.

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Developments in the world of sports politics, and no, this

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isn't about Tom Brady coming out of retirement. For the

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seventeenth time, President Trump signed this executive order about transgender

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athletes and women's sports. Now I've been to the White House,

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not really, but in my head I have, and I

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imagine the scene was exactly like when Michael Scott declared bankruptcy,

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just walking around pointing at things, declaring what they are. Now,

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the order basically tells schools they can't get federal funding

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if they let transgender athletes compete in women's sports. It's

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like when your parents say they'll stop paying your phone

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bill if you keep posting those interpretive dance videos on TikTok,

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except this involves actual constitutional law and affects real people's lives.

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Speaking of effects, their president, Charlie Baker made a statement

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that basically translates to give us a minute.

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We're frantically googling what to do.

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Meanwhile, in Washington State, they're sticking to their guns, like

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my cousin who insists he can parallel park. Their Education

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Department spokesperson basically said, yeah, we got your memo, but

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state law says otherwise. It's like when two parents give

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you different instructions, except instead of whether you can have

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ice cream for dinner, it's about civil rights and California's

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Attorney general is considering a lawsuit, which, in political terms

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is like saying, oh yeah, watch this. The whole situation

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has schools across the country playing a very high stakes

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game of red light green light. But here's where it

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gets really interesting. Some wealthy districts might just say keep

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your money, while others can't afford to. It's like when

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your rich friend orders the fancy dinner and your other

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friend is counting quarters for the dollar menu, same restaurant.

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Very different situations.

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The Supreme Court will probably have to settle this eventually,

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because nothing says we need the highest court in the

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land quite like not being able to agree on school

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sports rules. Portions of today's program were made with the

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help of Case and AI. And remember, although the refs

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aren't in the chief's pocket, Trump might claim the replay

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booth was rigged by the deep state. If a call

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goes against Kansas City