{"id":731563,"date":"2026-02-05T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/731563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:19:15","slug":"seth-meyers-spots-the-obvious-flaw-in-trumps-super-bowl-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/731563\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers Spots The Obvious Flaw In Trump\u2019s Super Bowl Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Meyers thinks NFL fan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s excuse for not attending the upcoming Super Bowl \u2014 between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks in San Francisco \u2014 just \u201cdoesn\u2019t track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said the game is taking place \u201ctoo far away,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Meyers wasn\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too far away?\u201d the \u201cLate Night\u201d host asked Wednesday. \u201cYou know you have your own plane, right? Like, we weren\u2019t expecting you to pile into a station wagon with Eric, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Jr.<\/a>, and Melania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meyers noted Trump\u2019s recent multiple trips abroad and went on to speculate that there may be \u201canother reason he might not want to attend a football game in the current political climate,\u201d before cutting to footage of Trump being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-commanders-game-boo-body-language_l_691206dce4b003bdc18561f7\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"audibly booed\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69845b92e4b0befe375487b2\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"691206dce4b003bdc18561f7\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">audibly booed<\/a> during his attendance at a Sunday Night Football clash between the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions in Washington, D.C., in November.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/trump-super-bowl-concern-boos\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Zeteo\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69845b92e4b0befe375487b2\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/trump-super-bowl-concern-boos\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zeteo<\/a> report this week said Trump\u2019s aides had advised him not to attend amid their fears he would receive a similar negative reception at the Super Bowl, and that\u2019s the real reason for him skipping the showdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Trump is worried about getting booed,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cHis approval ratings have been at all-time lows and his party\u2019s getting shellacked everywhere, even in deep red states like Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Meyers\u2019 full monologue here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers thinks NFL fan Donald Trump\u2019s excuse for not attending the upcoming Super Bowl \u2014 between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,7,6,102842,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-731563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-seth-meyers","12":"tag-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116019171923626661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}