Biden, 81, places on a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs helmet and jokes about banning Travis Kelce from utilizing the mic as reporter shouts: ‘The place’s Taylor Swift’

President Joe Biden welcomed Tremendous Bowl winners the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs to the White Home Friday – by placing a soccer helmet on his head and briefly letting tight finish Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift‘s boyfriend, converse.

Kelce was joined by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, coach Andy Reid, kicker Harrison Butker – the participant embroiled in a graduation speech controversey – and different teammates for the Chiefs second journey to the White Home in two years. 

‘I might have Travis come up right here however God is aware of what he’d say,’ Biden teased after delivering a brief speech, peppered with 2024 election jokes about being ‘again to again’ winners. 

Kelce reluctantly walked to the rostrum: ‘I am not going to lie President Biden, they advised me if I got here up right here, I’d get tased.’

As this system ended a reporter loudly shouted, ‘The place’s Taylor Swift?’ because the pop star did not attend the South Garden ceremony.  

The Chiefs additionally offered Biden with a present – a Kansas Metropolis helmet – which the president finally stuffed on his head. 

‘Thanks very a lot,’ Biden mentioned.  

He was capable of take away it earlier than chatting with Mahomes and Kelce on the conclusion of the ceremony.  

The White Home occasion comes after the group’s kicker, Butker, delivered a controversial graduation speech at Benedictine Faculty, a small Catholic school in Kansas, earlier this month.

Butker advised feminine graduates that they’ve had ‘probably the most diabolical lies’ advised to them.

‘A few of chances are you’ll go on to steer profitable careers on this planet, however I’d enterprise to guess that almost all of you’re most enthusiastic about your marriage and the youngsters you’ll deliver into this world,’ Butker mentioned. ‘I can let you know that my stunning spouse Isabelle can be the primary to say that her life really began when she began dwelling her vocation as a spouse and as a mom,’

Butker added that his spouse embraced ‘one of the essential titles of all. Homemaker.’  

The kicker additionally made anti-LGBTQ references noting that there is a ‘lethal sin type of pleasure that has a month devoted to it.’

And he additionally attacked Biden’s COVID-19 reponse, whereas including that various issues that the president supported ‘negatively impacted’ the graduates’ lives.

‘Issues like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, in addition to a rising assist for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from pervasiveness of dysfunction,’ Butker mentioned. 

Swift is presently on the European leg of her wildly profitable Eras Tour, having carried out in Madrid, Spain Thursday night time and heading to Lyon, France on Sunday. 

She flew from Tokyo to Las Vegas in February to look at Kelce and his teammates win their third Tremendous Bowl in simply 5 years. 

In February they beat the San Francisco 49ers – the identical group they defeated in 2020. 

Forward of the Tremendous Bowl there was some hypothesis {that a} Kansas Metropolis win might predict a Biden win this November – with the identical two groups enjoying within the Tremendous Bown and the identical two presidential candidates on the poll as 4 years in the past.

Whereas Swift indicated that she was voting for Biden in 2020 – she has but to formally endorse his reelection bid. 

The pop star heralds from the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which might enhance the president’s possibilities there. 

The Chiefs additionally famously beat the Philadelphia Eagles within the 2023 Tremendous Bowl, a disappointment for Dr. Jill Biden, an enormous fan of the group and who attended the sport. 

Kelce’s brother Jason was enjoying for the Eagles after they have been defeated by the Chiefs. 

Jason Kelce retired from the NFL earlier this 12 months.