{"id":22564,"date":"2025-02-24T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22564"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:14:22","slug":"president-donald-trump-has-surprising-reaction-to-the-philadelphia-eagles-declining-an-invitation-to-visit-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22564","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump Has Surprising Reaction To The Philadelphia Eagles Declining An Invitation To Visit The White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A strange new twist has emerged following news that the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>\u00a0rejected an invitation to visit the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles stopped the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>\u00a0from achieving a\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0three-peat earlier this month, beating them 40-22 in the big game. It\u2019s been suggested that they will not visit the President\u2019s official residence as they still hold a grudge from 2018, but TMZ is now reporting that they have not actually been invited.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Philadelphia Eagles have not formally rejected a visit to the White House \u2026 that\u2019s because an invitation hasn\u2019t been extended yet, TMZ Sports has learned,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/02\/24\/philadelphia-eagles-white-house-invite-donald-trump\/?adid=social-tws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the outlet notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Philadelphia Eagles Haven&#8217;t Been Invited to Donald Trump&#8217;s White House | Click to read more \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SweFcnbJaK\">https:\/\/t.co\/SweFcnbJaK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ_Sports\/status\/1894058915987431545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They cite White House sources whom they claim told them Trump hasn\u2019t extended an invitation as yet, so nothing is official.<\/p>\n<p>Should they get an invite, it\u2019s likely that they will turn it down, as a locker room source has reportedly told The Sun there was a\u00a0<em>\u201cmassive no\u201d<\/em>\u00a0around the room after the front office sat down to discuss the potential visit with the players.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-philadelphia-eagles-left-it-to-a-vote\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Philadelphia Eagles Left It To A Vote<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2263612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-1024x563.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-595x327.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-1536x845.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_25380574-1-2048x1126.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"Philadelphia Eagles lifting Lombardi Trophy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>Philadelphia Eagles (Photo via Geoff Burke\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/em>Most of the Eagles players rejected the opportunity to go after they won the Super Bowl in 2018. Donald Trump had made an invitation then, but he pulled it back.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/lane-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lane Johnson<\/a>, one of four players on that team who\u2019s currently on the Philly roster, said he\u2019d be open to going this time around, but it would come down to a team vote.<\/p>\n<p>Team owner Jeffrey Lurie did not give an answer on the matter when quizzed by a reporter before the Super Bowl on February 9.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that the Eagles haven\u2019t issued a statement rejecting the visit. In any case, they haven\u2019t received anything to reject.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A strange new twist has emerged following news that the\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles\u00a0rejected an invitation to visit the White House. The Eagles stopped the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0from achieving a\u00a0Super Bowl\u00a0three-peat earlier &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22566,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions\/22566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}