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Trump and Taylor Swift arrive at the Super Bowl in New Orleans

REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE / FEB. 9
                                President Donald Trump participates in a meet and greet with the honorary coin toss participants including family members of the victims from the New Orleans truck attack, members of the New Orleans Police Department, and emergency personnel, as he attends the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Louisiana.

REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE / FEB. 9

President Donald Trump participates in a meet and greet with the honorary coin toss participants including family members of the victims from the New Orleans truck attack, members of the New Orleans Police Department, and emergency personnel, as he attends the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Louisiana.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida >> President Donald Trump and pop superstar Taylor Swift arrived at the Super Bowl on Sunday in New Orleans ahead of kickoff for the NFL title game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.

Trump arrived at the Superdome to a mix of cheers and boos, walking straight into the stadium to meet with the “honorary coin toss participants,” including family members of victims of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans as well as police officers and emergency workers.

Trump is the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl.

Swift, who was also in attendance when the Chiefs won the NFL title game in Las Vegas a year ago, wore a cream-colored blazer as she stood inside a private box at the Superdome.

Other A-list celebrities inside the newly renovated Superdome included Argentine World Cup winner Lionel Messi, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and comedian Adam Sandler.

The Eagles were cheered while the Chiefs were booed as the teams took the field for warmups ahead of kickoff, even though the stadium looked about split between fans in Eagles green and Chiefs crimson.

Sunny morning skies gave way to rain about an hour before kickoff, causing fans to scramble inside the indoor Superdome.

Security was tight as police officers and Homeland Security officers shut down several blocks of key thoroughfare Poydras Street to traffic, with the NFL title game kicking off just weeks after a deadly New Year’s Day attack in the popular French Quarter neighborhood.

Secret Service searched members of the media and credentialed staff as they entered the stadium.

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the favored Chiefs are looking to become the first team in league history to win three consecutive Super Bowls while the Eagles hope to exact revenge for their loss to the team in the Big Game two years ago.

Three-time Super Bowl champion Mahomes looked confident as he strolled into the facility in an Eagles-green suit, tie, and sunglasses.

His Eagles counterpart Jalen Hurts entered in an all-purple ensemble as the theme song to the iconic Philadelphia underdog movie “Rocky” blared over the stadium speakers.

Swift is on hand to support her boyfriend, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, just as she was last year when Kansas City triumphed over the 49ers in Las Vegas.

“Go Taylor’s boyfriend,” was written on banners and t-shirts of the fans she has helped bring into the league.

New Orleans was hosting the game for a record-tying 11th time as fans shelled out to attend, with the average price of tickets sold hovering around $6,500 on resale platform StubHub.

For Chiefs fans, the chance to witness the possibility of history being written was too enticing to pass up.

“We’re incredibly excited, coming here hopefully to watch them get the three-peat today. We’ll see. We’re pretty excited. Anxious but excited,” said Clint Benge, 37, an orthopedic surgeon living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, attending with his wife, fellow orthopedic surgeon Liz Helsper-Benge, 35.

Jeff Yoder, 44, an Eagles fan and construction company manager from West Chester, Pennsylvania, stopped by the entrance to take a selfie and soak in the experience.

He got tickets for him and his father, who had chemotherapy last year for lymphoma.

“I’ve been going to Eagles games my entire life with my father. He’s been taking me since I was a baby. And I’ve been taking him these last few years, and we went to the last three games together, the last playoff games and we couldn’t stop. We had to go to this game,” Yoder said.

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