The last Super Bowl played when Donald Trump was in the White House was the Kansas City Chiefs beating the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV.
He was the subject of a number of proposition bets that Sunday, including if he would tweet during the game (yes), would he predict a winner before kickoff (he hedged his bets), and would he send congratulations to the winning team via Twitter (also yes).
He is back in the White House, the Chiefs are back in the Super Bowl, and this time, instead of just watching the game on television and commenting from afar, Trump will attend the game in New Orleans on Sunday. It will be the first time a sitting U.S. president is in attendance.
Following the terrorist attack in the city of New Orleans on January 1, the security for the Super Bowl was already going to be significant. Now it will be even more so, and the U.S. Secret Service acknowledged this week that they have been on the ground for several days in New Orleans to work out the logistics. Fans have yet to be given instructions on what they will need to do to get into the Superdome on Sunday, but they can expect multiple secure checkpoints and delays.
Also in attendance will be Taylor Swift, who is publicly much more a fan of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce than she is of the President. After she endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024, Trump posted online, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT.” (The all caps were his).
The President is a frequent user of social media, and one of the proposition bets involving him for this Super Bowl is his use of the medium. After the game is over, who will post on social media first: Trump (-500), or Swift (+300)?
Taylor’s first priority after the game, win or lose, will be Kelce, which makes the president the obvious favorite.
Super Bowl Exotic Props
Of all of the many types of prop bets that can be placed, exotic prop bets are the most fun. They are bets that don’t actually involve the game, like the social media “first post” prop between Taylor Swift and the president, as well as the many Taylor-centric props we’ve seen the last two Super Bowls.
Will she join Kendrick Lamar on the field for the halftime show? No is paying -5000 with yes coming in at +1000. When the game is over, will Travis Kelce propose to Taylor? No is -2000, and yes is +800. It is worth noting that with another year of being a couple under their belts, the odds of a proposal have shortened from the +1000 last year.
Outside of Swift and the president being in attendance, we have your regular exotic props. These include the length of five-time Grammy winner Jon Batiste’s National Anthem, which is currently paying -142 to go over 120.5 seconds. It’s -400 if you want to bet on piano accompaniment. Pregame props also always include the coin toss, which has come up Tails in six of the last 10 Super Bowls, but lost out to Heads in three of the last four.
Moving on to halftime, you can wager on the first song performed by Kendrick Lamar, Humble (+160) or DNA (+500). Humble was Lamar’s second No.1 single on the U.S. charts, which is why it is the favorite.
After the game, you can also wager on which color of Gatorade will be dumped on the winning head coach. Andy Reid was showered in purple in each of the last two Super Bowls, and that is the betting favorite at +225. Yellow, green, or lime color (what the Eagles dumped on Nick Sirianni after winning the NFC Championship) is close behind at +250. A water bath, with no sports drink involved, is lagging well behind at +900.
With over 25 years of experience as a distinguished sports writer for renowned platforms such as Fox Sports and ESPN, Kyle Garlett is a sports betting specialist who has been at the forefront of documenting the global surge in sports betting and online gaming. Based in Denver, Colorado, Kyle hosts an NFL betting YouTube show and podcast. Kyle also has two sports books published by HarperCollins.
Kyle graduated the Azusa Pacific University in 1996 with a B.A. Degree in Communication and Journalism.
