Video shows Trump at college football game, not Super Bowl | Fact check
The claim: Video shows Super Bowl crowd cheering Trump
A Feb. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walking onto a football field to a chorus of cheers.
"Trump got a standing ovation at the Super Bowl!" the post's caption reads. "The crowd went wild cheering for him."
It was shared nearly 4,000 times in three days.
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Our rating: False
The video is miscaptioned. The video shows Trump at the 2020 college football national championship game, not Super Bowl LIX in 2025.
Post misrepresents video of Trump at College Football Playoff title game
Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl on Feb. 9, watching as the Philadelphia Eagles built a commanding lead over the Kansas City Chiefs before leaving the game at halftime. Philadelphia went on to defeat Kansas City, 40-22.
But the video in the Facebook post doesn't show Trump at Super Bowl 59 or any previous Super Bowl. Rather, it shows fans cheering for him at the College Football Playoff title game between Louisiana State University and Clemson University in New Orleans on Jan. 13, 2020.
CBS 17 in North Carolina shared the same footage of Trump and his wife walking onto the field at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on YouTube over five years ago. Getty Images also photographed Trump and the first lady at the 2020 college football national championship game, where LSU defeated Clemson, 42-25.
Fact check: Boos edited into 2020 video of Trump, not filmed at Super Bowl
Trump's reception at the 2025 Super Bowl was a mixed bag. Footage shared by the NFL shows the crowd cheering for him when he was shown saluting during the national anthem. Paste BN reported the president was met with cheers and boos at the game.
Paste BN has debunked other social media claims involving the 2025 Super Bowl, including a video that had been manipulated to show a crowd booing Trump and an image that had been altered to show a supposed Trump post blaming Kansas City's loss on "DEI nonsense."
Paste BN reached out to the Facebook user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Our fact-check sources
- CBS 17 (YouTube), Jan. 14, 2020, ‘Four More Years’; President Trump cheered loudly at College Football National Championship
- Getty Images, Jan. 14, 2020, College Football Playoff National Championship – Clemson v LSU
- NFL (YouTube), Feb. 9, Jon Batiste Sings the National Anthem at Super Bowl LIX
- Paste BN, Feb. 10, President Trump trolls Taylor Swift, who got booed at Super Bowl LIX
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