{"id":9203,"date":"2025-04-29T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/9203\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:58:09","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-star-players-skip-donald-trump-meeting-at-white-house-as-us-president-takes-swipe-at-taylor-swift-firstpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/9203\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles star players skip Donald Trump meeting at White House as US President takes swipe at Taylor Swift \u2013 Firstpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in 2018, the Philadelphia Eagles visited the White House this time to meet US President Donald Trump. However, a few players were missing, and the President also used the occasion to take a dig at Taylor Swift.read more<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Eagles visited the White House on Monday with some of their key players missing as they were honoured by the USA President Donald Trump<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/sports\/super-bowl-lix-prize-money-philadelphia-eagles-kansas-city-chiefs-13861777.html\" id=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/sports\/super-bowl-lix-prize-money-philadelphia-eagles-kansas-city-chiefs-13861777.html\" class=\"body_anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for winning Super Bowl LIX<\/a>. The Eagles won the National Football League (NFL) championship by beating the Kansas City Chiefs in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Eagles\u2019 trip to the White House in 2018, after winning the Lombardi Trophy, was cancelled by Trump as a majority of the players did not want to attend the ceremony over the dispute over the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADPlayers skip Trump meeting as Philadelphia Eagles visit White House<\/p>\n<p>However, on Monday, the Philadelphia Eagles team gathered at the South Lawn to celebrate their victory in Super Bowl LIX.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eagles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Eagles<\/a> visited the White House today to celebrate their Super Bowl LIX victory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cFmrU706F0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cFmrU706F0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1917007333177348462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be with this incredible group of champions, great team, and we\u2019re thrilled to welcome everyone to the White House, it\u2019s a special place to celebrate the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a special day, that was a big one. But the Eagles have turned out to be an incredible team, with an incredible group with a fantastic coach and coaches and having you at the White House is very, very special and important, and we appreciate you being here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the team visited the White House, some of the prominent players, including Jalen Hurts, Brandon Graham, AJ Brown, DeVonta Smith, Zack Baun, Quinyon Mitchell, Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith were absent. As per reports, the MVP of Super Bowl LIX, Hurts, missed the visit due to \u201cscheduling conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, did not stop praising Hurts for his performance.<\/p>\n<p>STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComplimenting Saquon\u2019s historic season was an incredible year for star quarterback Jalen Hurts,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe had a great season and a great game. He finished with 32 touchdowns on the year, turning in one stellar performance after another. A terrific guy and a terrific player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, who was at the White House, had earlier clarified that the visit was \u201coptional\u201d for players.<\/p>\n<p>Trump takes a dig at Swift<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump also took a dig at pop sensation Taylor Swift while honouring the Eagles players. While speaking about the\u00a0 Super Bowl LIX victory, Trump said: \u201cFrom the first quarter of the big game, I was there, I watched in person. I was there along with Taylor Swift. How did that work out? How did that one work out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Swift was jeered by fans at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had also made his feelings clear about Swift last year on social media after the music sensation supported then-Vice President Kamala Harris for president. He had written, \u201cI HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!\u201d in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike in 2018, the Philadelphia Eagles visited the White House this time to meet US President Donald Trump.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[5831,5830,5640,78,5825,25,7,5832,492,5826,6,242,109,5829,5406,5828,2476,2024,4205,5827,5823,5822,5824,1517],"class_list":{"0":"post-9203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-aj-brown","9":"tag-brandon-graham","10":"tag-devonta-smith","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-donald-trump-news","13":"tag-eagles","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-jalen-carter-and-nolan-smith","16":"tag-jalen-hurts","17":"tag-jalen-hurts-news","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-philadelphia","20":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","21":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-donald-trump","22":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","23":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-white-house","24":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","25":"tag-quinyon-mitchell","26":"tag-taylor-swift","27":"tag-taylor-swift-news","28":"tag-trump-eagles-visit","29":"tag-trump-philadelphia-eagles","30":"tag-trump-taylor-swift","31":"tag-zack-baun"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203","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=9203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}