Does a video show President Donald Trump and Melania Trump walking out onto the field of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on February 9, 2025? No, that's not true: Melania Trump was not at the 2025 Super Bowl. The video showing the two walking onto the field dates back to the 2020 College Football National Championship, which was held in the same New Orleans stadium.
The misidentified video clip was posted on X (archived here) on February 9, 2025. It was captioned:
Trump Walks on the Field During Super Bowl to Thunderous Applause While Liberals Still Claim He Was Booed. Liberals are again so far removed from reality and they really think everyone agrees with them. #Trump #SuperBowl2025
The scope of this fact check is not to determine whether Trump was booed or cheered, but whether his wife was with him when he went on the field at Super Bowl LIX in 2025. This video clip shows a different event and the audio track has been altered.
The original YouTube video (pictured below) posted by CBS 17 on January 14, 2020, is titled, "'Four More Years'; President Trump cheered loudly at College Football National Championship." It shows the president and first lady greeting football fans in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
Donald Trump attended the 2025 Super Bowl with his daughter Ivanka (archived here), and grandson Theodore. A February 9, 2025, article on www.nbcnewyork.com (archived here) notes that Trump was the first sitting president to ever attend a Super Bowl. Trump briefly appeared on the field (pictured below), where he greeted first responders and posed for photos.
The 2020 College Football National Championship and the 2025 Super Bowl LIX were both held in the same Superdome stadium but in 2021 the naming rights for the Superdome (archived here) were transferred from Mercedes-Benz to Caesars Entertainment.
At the time this was written, USA Today had reviewed a similar claim.
