Karine Jean-Pierre Addresses White House Invite Status For Chiefs' Harrison Butker
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The Kansas City Chiefs were already set to celebrate their Super Bowl win in Washington when the kicker gave a bigoted speech last week.
The White House press secretary cannot confirm or deny that Harrison Butker will soon meet with the president.
Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday was asked if the Kansas City Chiefs kicker, whose team is set to celebrate its recent Super Bowl win with a trip to Washington, is still invited to the White House after he delivered a bigoted commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas.
“What I can say is all of the team, per usual when there is a championship team, gets invited,” Jean-Pierre told a CNN reporter. “I don’t have anything to add on their attendance or how that looks, but the team is always invited. Everyone on the team is invited.”
Indeed, the tradition of inviting sports teams to the White House dates back more than 150 years. But some observers wondered if Butker would still be allowed to visit after he directly insulted President Joe Biden and his policies in last week’s commencement speech.
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