On Sunday, President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl, where he was a guest of New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson at the Superdome, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Prior to the game, Trump will sit down with veteran Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a pre-Super Bowl interview, part of a tradition that dates back to 2004, when former President George W. Bush sat down with CBS announcer Jim Nantz ahead of Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston.
Though the tradition of the interview itself has been spotty of late.
President Joe Biden opted to skip an interview with Baier and Fox in 2023 ahead of the Eagles’ first Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs in Arizona. He also turned down an interview on CBS ahead of last year’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas. Trump also bucked the trend by declining to be interviewed by NBC ahead of Super Bowl LII in 2018, a game Eagles fans remember fondly.
Despite that, Baier said it wasn’t too difficult to get the president to agree to talk this time around.
“We had been talking with them about an interview after the inauguration, and he definitely was open,” Baier said. “As you’ve seen, he’s not afraid to take questions. He’s taken more questions, arguably, in the first few weeks of his administration than his previous president in many, many months.”
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Baier was headed down to Florida on Saturday to tape the interview with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. A portion will be shown during the 3 p.m. hour Sunday during Fox’s massive pregame show, while the rest of the interview will appear Monday at 6 p.m. during Baier’s Fox News show, Special Report.
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