The Kansas City Chiefs celebrated their back-to-back Super Bowl titles at the White House on Friday afternoon — with the entire team on hand for the event — as the president had a funny conversation with Travis Kelce.
President Joe Biden commented on the team’s success and the tragedy of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.
After giving his speech, the president joked, “I’d let Travis come here, but God only knows what he’d say,” before letting Kelce take the microphone.
“My fellow Americans, it’s nice to see you all again,” Kelce briefly joked — a flashback to the year before, when he tried to grab the microphone at the event.
“I’m not going to lie, President Biden. They told me if I came here I would get a bag, so I’m going back to my spot,” Kelce said before shaking Biden’s hand.
Travis Kelce made another joke at the White House during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl visit
President Biden opened with remarks before turning it over to Chiefs owner Clark Hunt
After Hunt’s speech ended, Biden was presented with a Chiefs helmet which he successfully placed on his head.
It is a longstanding tradition for championship sports teams, both professional and collegiate, to be invited to the White House.
The Chiefs have won the Super Bowl three times in the past five years. In 2023, they defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, first lady Jill Biden’s favorite football team. She grew up near Philadelphia and attended the game.
Kansas City also defeated San Francisco to claim the 2020 Super Bowl title.
The Chiefs shared on social media early Friday that “we are celebrating our back-to-back championship seasons and victory in Super Bowl LVIII at the White House.”
Kicker Harrison Butker, who made headlines by attacking some of Biden’s policies during a speech earlier this month, also accompanied his teammates to the White House.
Butker recently defended his comments, saying he did not regret expressing his beliefs.
In the May 16 speech at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas, Butker congratulated the women who graduated and said most of them were probably more excited about getting married and having children.
The Lombardi Trophy and a Kansas City Chiefs helmet on display at the White House
President Biden addresses the crowd while wearing a signed Kansas City Chiefs helmet
Rashee Rice and Wanya Morris also posed together as they later stepped off the plane
Harrison Butker is expected to attend, despite his scathing recent comments about Biden
He criticized some of Biden’s policy positions, including the Democratic president’s condemnation of the Supreme Court’s reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nationwide, and his advocacy for freedom of choice.
Abortion is an issue that Biden and his fellow Democrats hope to use to their advantage in the November elections.
Butker also addressed Biden’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed nearly 1.2 million people in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As for Swift, her absence would undoubtedly disappoint many in the White House.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continued to fend off questions earlier this week about whether the 34-year-old singer-songwriter would show up.
“That’s a good question,” Jean-Pierre said. “I can’t talk to her schedule. But I know there is a lot of interest in this building, on this campus.’
Swift traveled abroad on her Eras tour, with a show scheduled for Thursday in Madrid.