American president Joe Biden appears ready to break tradition by not sitting for an interview during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII broadcast.
Biden is a longtime fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, who are set to play Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday, “I don’t have anything to preview on Sunday.”
Fox News, which would conduct the interview as part of the official broadcast, hasn’t officially commented on a potential interview either way. Deadline notes ideological differences between the Biden Administration and Fox News could be at work.
The outlet noted that “during Tucker Carlson’s show on Tuesday, coming just before Biden’s State of the Union address, the chyron gave an update reading, ‘Mannequin President Has Left The White House.'”
That difference, however, hasn’t stopped Biden from running ads on the network.
“Meanwhile, a pro-Joe Biden ad, timed for release after his State of the Union address, was spotted during Fox News’ The Five, which draws more viewers than any other cable news show,” Deadline wrote. “The spot was from Future Forward USA Action, one of the largest independent spending groups to back Biden in the 2020 presidential race, with donors to an affiliated PAC including hedge fund managing director Stephen Mandel and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.”
The NFL world was quick to react to the news:
Former Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers agrees that Joe Biden shouldn't give Fox a Super Bowl interview.
"At this point, I don’t know who they could put forth who would do a serious interview… where Fox News is at this point, I’m not really sure where the upside is for it." pic.twitter.com/shKcXzOCNz
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 10, 2023
President Biden probably shouldn't grant a Super Bowl interview to an outlet featuring "hard news" shows that lie about him to benefit his political foes. Put the onus on Fox to tamp down the egregious dishonesty. pic.twitter.com/zd5pEVD0Gk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 10, 2023
The View urges Biden to break tradition and not sit down with the Super Bowl broadcaster for an interview (this year it's Fox News).
Joy calls "those people" at Fox are a "problem" and "liars."
"I don't think he should," racist Sunny says scoffing at 20 million viewers. pic.twitter.com/eQ3Yed41xE— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 10, 2023
This is good. There are plenty of places the White House can go to for interviews that didn’t support and make excuses for electoral subversion. And who’s going to miss a presidential interview interrupting Super Bowl prep? https://t.co/Fdy0SyQlkc
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) February 10, 2023
Only time will tell if Biden will appear on the Super Bowl broadcast.
[Deadline]
