For the second straight year, the Kansas City Chiefs will be making a trip to the White House. The Chiefs will be heading to Washington D.C. this week to celebrate their Super Bowl win with President Joe Biden on Friday, the White House has announced.
The visit will come less than three weeks after Harrison Butker criticized Biden while giving a controversial speech at Benedictine College in Kansas. During the speech, the Chiefs kicker called out the president for his abortion views. Butker is pro-life while Biden is pro-choice.
“Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally,” Butker said. “He has been so vocal in his support for the murder of innocent babies that I’m sure, to many people, it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice.”
Super Bowl winner Matt Birk skipped Baltimore’s White House trip in 2013 because he disagreed with former President Obama’s abortion stance, but right now, it’s not clear if Butker is planning to go that route.
Although Butker doesn’t see eye-to-eye with Biden on several issues, including LGBTQ rights (Butker took a shot at Pride Month during his speech), White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made it clear that the Chiefs kicker will still be welcomed when his team comes to visit.
“Honestly, what I can say is we invite the entire team and we do that always. I don’t have anything beyond that,” Jean-Pierre recently told reporters when asked if Butker would be invited. “We invite the team, it’s an invitation that goes to the team, and so it’s up to the team who comes and who doesn’t.”
Last week, Chiefs coach Andy Reid was asked whether he expected Butker to be at the White House, and he seemed pretty confident that his kicker would be making the trip.
“Oh, I’m sure he will, yeah,”…
Source link : https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-set-to-visit-white-house-on-friday-just-weeks-after-harrison-butker-criticized-president-joe-biden/
Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-05-28 18:00:22
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
