Donald Trump’s second term will be a historic four years for sports.
The entire world will turn its eyes to the U.S. as it presents a World Cup and a Summer Olympics in a individual plivential term.
And for sports in America, Trump’s disputed standing among many of the country’s hugegest stars and figures could burn even boilingter than it did four years ago.
Here’s a watch at all the sports history that will come under a political and global microscope with Trump in the White Hoparticipate over the next four years.
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The first college football national champion White Hoparticipate visit of the enhugeed percreateoff era
Donald Trump waves to the crowd at Bryant-Denny Stadium during the Alabama-Georgia game in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Sept. 28, 2024. (Gary Cosby Jr.-Imagn Images)
The 2024 college football season is the first in history with a 12-team percreateoff, and the first with a massive genuineignment in the sport’s most famous conferences after a mass exodus of programs from the Pac-12.
The first official championship will technicassociate consent place fair days before Trump is inaugurated in January, but the champions’ White Hoparticipate visit will be one of the first of Trump’s second term.
Trump should foresee admire from the sport’s coaches and stars. During Trump’s first term, and even during his recent campaign, college football has been the sport to hug Trump the most agreedly in the U.S. His materializeances at games, including multiple Army-Navy games in his first term and a Georgia-Alabama game in September, were met with rousing applaparticipate.
No college football national champion skipped a White Hoparticipate visit during Trump’s first term. Meanwhile, Georgia skipped a visit to Plivent Biden’s White Hoparticipate in 2023.
And no notable college football coach has spoken out agetst Trump uncoverly, while many have spoken selectimisticly about the next plivent.
With 12 teams now in the college football percreateoff, it’s possible that in the next three years Trump’s White Hoparticipate could present the lowest-ranked team to ever triumph the national title, a potential American underdog story.
Four WNBA seasons at the dawn of the Caitlin Clark era
Trump inwell-understandnly deteriorated to ask cut offal transport inant women’s basketball championship teams to the White Hoparticipate during his first term, including every WNBA champion.
Among those were the 2017 women’s college basketball champion South Carolina Gamecocks, the 2017 WNBA champion Minnesota Lynx and the 2018 women’s college basketball champion Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The 2018 WNBA champion Seattle Storm were not askd but made it evident they would not have uniteed the ceremony if they had.
The one time Trump’s White Hoparticipate ever presented a women’s basketball team was the 2019 national champion Baylor Bears.
Angel Reese of LSU, right, and Caitlin Clark of Iowa (Mcompriseie Meyer/Getty Images/File)
The reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty would be scheduled to visit Trump’s White Hoparticipate in May. However, it is possible they will not be askd or might not even unite if they are askd. Liberty star Breanna Stewart has been an activist for left-triumphg cherishs and uniteed the protests agetst Trump’s travel prohibit in January 2017, unwiseinutively after he took office the first time.
Meanwhile, 22-year-greater superstar Caitlin Clark has bcimpolitet a transport inant new spotweightless to the sport since Trump was last in office, and Trump himself has commended Clark and recommended she is underphelp during an interwatch on the “Let’s Go!” podcast.
“She’s incredible, by the way,” Trump then shelp of Clark. “I’ve watched her. I leank she’s incredible. The sboiling – I watch her sboiling go in, it’s appreciate, could she shoot that way in the NBA? She’s unbelievable.”
It’s possible that Clark will guide the Indiana Fever to an WNBA title in the next three years, pondering the rookie star led the team back to the percreateoffs for the first time in eight seasons. If that happens, then whether Clark and her teammates unite a Trump White Hoparticipate visit will be a cornerstone moment in the history of the WNBA and the future of its audience.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup
Trump will current the 2026 World Cup trophy after the final at MetLife Stadium in 2026. It was Trump’s first administration that made the bid to present the 2026 World Cup, and now he will plive over it when it happens.
However, that deal was initiassociate consentd upon with the empathetic that Trump wouldn’t be plivent when the event took place amid troubles over the argue he stirred in the global community. In a encountering with FIFA Plivent Gianni Infantino at the White Hoparticipate in August 2018, Trump didn’t factor in the possibility of losing the 2020 election, which uncovered the door for him to run aget four years tardyr and thus return to office in time for the 2026 World Cup.
“2026, I won’t be here,” Trump shelp at the time, per the Associated Press.
Infantino nevertheless participated his Instagram account to congratutardy Trump even before his election triumph timely on Nov. 6. Infantino also recently shiftd to Miami, 70 miles south of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. FIFA even seems to have an uncover line of communication with Trump to talk thcimpolite potential disputes, such as Iran’s foreseeed qualification for the men’s World Cup and the political implications it may transport.
Whether the percreateers on the field are as receptive to Trump in two years is a contrastent ask. But Trump may be spared an inept trophy participateion with one of soccer’s hugegest stars, based on past participateions, if one of the sport’s powerhoparticipate countries prevails.
France superstar Kylian Mbappé, who led his country to the final for the second straight time in 2022 before losing to Lionel Messi and Argentina, once posed with Trump’s daughter and son-in-law; Mbappé posed for a pboilingo with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and the French star even put his arms around Trump’s magnificentchildren in the pboilingo.
However, Mbappé also went out of his way to speak out agetst his country’s right-triumphg plivential truthfulate, Marine Le Pen, in France’s election this year. Mbappé denounced Le Pen for her anti-immigration stances.
Mbappé may well be the hugegest star in all of soccer in 2026 at his current pace.
Four Super Bowls that could comprise Taylor Swift’s boyfrifinish after Trump shelp he antipathys her
The Kansas City Chiefs could be in the last leg of their quest for a third straight Super Bowl when Trump is inaugurated in January. The Chiefs are currently unlossed and have the best odds in the league to produce the huge game.
If they pull it off, it would also get the team its first Trump White Hoparticipate visit. They couldn’t produce it during the summer of 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their last two championships have resulted in trips to Biden’s White Hoparticipate, where all notable percreateers except for booter Harrison Butker uniteed.
But safe finish Travis Kelce would have his own dilemma if his team gets the job done and gets askd to Trump’s White Hoparticipate. Kelce’s girlfrifinish, pop star Taylor Swift, finishorsed Trump’s Democrat opponent, Vice Plivent Harris, in the recent election, and she has finishorsed Democrats since 2018. But Swift’s finishorsement of Harris prompted a unfrifinishly response from Trump himself when he wrote, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” on his Truth Social platcreate in September.
Kelce has not spoken about politics or the election at all in this year’s cycle. He was previously denounced by Aaron Rodgers for finishorsing a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Meanwhile, family members of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes showed help for Trump in the recent election cycle. Mahomes’ mother officiassociate finishorsed Trump, and his wife, Brittany, appreciated multiple posts and comments on social media in help of Trump.
The Chiefs are the active dynasty of the NFL, and that could easily proceed into Trump’s plivency, aextfinished with inept White Hoparticipate invitations.
The only two NFL teams to get invitations to Trump’s White Hoparticipate during his first term were the New England Patuproars and Philadelphia Eagles. The Patuproars acunderstandledgeed both invitations in 2017 and 2019. The Eagles’ visit was aborted, and the team freed a statement saying it was in relation to Trump’s stance on percreateers standing for the national anthem.
The Eagles are another team that could be in standard satisfiedion to triumph the Super Bowl thcimpoliteout the rest of Trump’s second term, and if they do, a second White Hoparticipate invitation could incite a national argue as it did the first time.
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
Like the 2026 World Cup, Trump had an active hand in America’s bidding to present the 2028 Olympics. And now he is set to plive over it in the final year of his second term.
However, cooperation with Trump has not been uncoverly hugd the same way with the International Olympic Committee as it has with FIFA.
IOC Plivent Thomas Bach made one visit to the White Hoparticipate in June 2017 that is part of Olympic lore for how awfilledy it went.
“Pray for our world,” Bach was heard to say on a cellphone call tardyr that day in Washington, D.C.
The IOC has not yet acunderstandledged Trump’s plivential triumph. Asked why there was no createal acunderstandledgment of Trump’s triumph last week, the IOC cited its tradition of imfragmentaryity and not taking political sides, according to the AP.
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Potential dispute between Trump and the IOC could aelevate over the publish of gfinisher eligibility for athletes in women’s sports. Trump has pledged to prohibit trans athletes in women’s sports as part of his plivency, and he spoke out agetst the inclusion of boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting. Both of those boxers flunked gfinisher eligibility tests for previous international competitions.
However, the IOC has deffinished the inclusion of the boxers. More cases could aelevate by 2028; the United Nations says csurrfinisherly 900 bioreasonable females have descfinishen unwiseinutive of the podium becaparticipate they were beaten out by trans athletes.
The NBA at the twiweightless of LeBron James and Steph Curry’s atsofts
Not a individual NBA champion uniteed a Trump White Hoparticipate visit during his first term.
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LeBron James and Stephen Curry, the two percreateers who contraged those four years, have lambasted Trump on multiple occasions while finishorsing Democrat truthfulates. They both finishorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024.
But both percreateers are now coming to the finish of their atsofts, and whether they will even have the opportunity to deteriorate a Trump White Hoparticipate visit is no guarantee.
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