Eagles' Saquon Barkley hangs out with Trump after teammate dodges question on White House visit

Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley was spotted with President Donald Trump astatine his play people successful New Jersey connected Sunday, a time earlier the squad visits the White House.

A photograph that made the rounds connected societal media showed Barkley sitting to Trump’s left. There were astatine slightest a twelve "Make America Great Again" hats sitting connected the array straight successful beforehand of the Super Bowl champion NFL prima and the president.

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Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)

He flew backmost to Washington with Trump.

Barkley’s quality with Trump came a fewer days aft Jalen Hurts raised eyebrows erstwhile helium was soundless connected a question astir whether helium would sojourn the White House with the squad to observe their Super Bowl championship.

Appearing connected the reddish carpet for the 2025 TIME100 gala successful New York City connected Thursday night, Hurts was asked whether helium planned connected visiting the White House for adjacent week’s authoritative sojourn connected Monday.

"Um," Hurts said before looking around. He ne'er answered the question arsenic the interviewer thanked him for his time.

Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley (Eric Hartline-Imagn Images)

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A White House authoritative confirmed to Fox News Digital successful aboriginal March that an invitation from the president had been sent and that the squad had "enthusiastically accepted." This followed the Eagles' determination not to be the White House successful 2018 aft winning the franchise’s first-ever Super Bowl. 

During that time, Trump rescinded the invitation to big the Eagles aft respective players said they would not enactment successful the sojourn due to the fact that of his erstwhile criticisms of nationalist anthem protests. 

But this month, Eagles squad proprietor Jeffrey Lurie called it "a time-honored tradition" that the squad was looking guardant to. 

Hurts didn’t precisely person a glowing connection connected Trump’s determination to sojourn New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX.

Meanwhile, Barkley was astatine the J.P. Morgan Tech 100 Summit this month, which Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, attended with hubby Jared Kushner, their son, Theodore, and Jared's brother, Joshua.

According to a caller study, President Trump has answered implicit 1,000 questions from journalists during his archetypal period successful office. (Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)

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"Had an astonishing clip astatine the J.P. Morgan tech 100 summit! Want to springiness a shoutout to Madhu for having maine out. Want to besides springiness a shoutout to everyone who made it amazing," Barkley posted connected X astatine the time.

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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