Trump is celebrating the Super Bowl champ Eagles, but star QB Jalen Hurts is skipping the ceremony

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is hosting the 2025 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles astatine the White House connected Monday, but respective players, including backmost Jalen Hurts, are skipping the celebration.

Hurts and different players cited scheduling conflicts arsenic the reasons for their absences, according to a White House authoritative who was not authorized to remark publically and spoke connected information of anonymity.

In his archetypal term, Trump invited and past canceled a solemnisation for the Eagles successful 2018 aft the franchise’s archetypal Super Bowl title. He alternatively threw his ain little “Celebration of America” aft it became wide astir players weren’t going to amusement up.

Asked by a newsman connected the reddish carpet of the Time mag gala past week whether helium would instrumentality portion successful the White House visit, Hurts responded with an awkward “um” and agelong soundlessness earlier walking away.

Eagles prima moving backmost Saquon Barkley visited Trump implicit the play astatine Trump National Golf Club successful Bedminster, New Jersey, and caught a thrust with the president to Washington connected Air Force One and past to the White House connected Marine One.

Trump told reporters connected Sunday that helium thought Barkley was a “nice guy.”

Barkley, meanwhile, pushed backmost connected societal media disapproval for spending clip with Trump. He noted that helium has golfed with erstwhile President Barack Obama, a Democrat.

“Maybe I conscionable respect the office, not a hard conception to understand,” Barkley posted connected X.

Barkley ran distant with the Offensive Player of the Year grant this past play aft rushing for 2,005 yards, eighth-best successful NFL history. It was his archetypal play with the Eagles.

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