Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha suggested there is a strategy behind President Donald Trump’s attendance at various sporting events.
Concha appeared on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime the day after Trump made history as the first sitting president since 1978 to attend a regular-season NFL game on Sunday. Trump watched the game between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions.
“And President Trump, to your point, understands media and connecting with big audiences like no president or person we’ve ever seen,” Concha said. “If we’re talking about attending the Super Bowl or the Daytona 500, the FIFA World Cup soccer final here in New Jersey, right next door to me, over the summer. He’s embracing these moments in a way that we have seen from no other president.”
Trump’s attendance was met with some opposition. The president read the names of a large group of men and women who were enlisting in the various branches of the U.S military during halftime. As he read the names, some in the crowd booed.
With the Super Bowl approaching, Trump has also commented on the “crazy” choice of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny as the halftime performer.
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“I never heard of him. I don’t know who he is,” Trump said of Bad Bunny. “I don’t know why they’re doing it.”
Trump has also floated the idea of naming the new Commanders stadium after himself. Concha said Trump “probably is trolling people” with the suggestion.