Last week, the Kansas City Chiefs visited United States President Joe Biden at the White House to celebrate their recent Super Bowl LVIII victory. During his speech, Biden invited Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce to the podium to say a few words. Kelce obliged but also joked that the Secret Service had warned him about stepping to the podium. Turns out, he wasn’t joking.
The whole situation occurred after an incident during the team’s visit to the White House last year when Travis Kelce jokingly walked to the podium while Joe Biden was distracted elsewhere. This year, Kelce was invited to the podium, but he quickly stepped away, telling the president that the Secret Service warned him that he “would get tased” if he came to the podium uninvited.
“I’m not gonna lie, President Biden, they told me if I came up here I would get tased,” Kelce said. “So I’m gonna go back to my spot, alright?”
It sounded like a funny joke at the time, but during a recent interview with Good Morning American, Travis Kelce revealed the truth that it certainly wasn’t a joke.
“President [Joe] Biden called me up this time,” he recalled. “I didn’t have to sneak around him to get to it…It was cool. You know, I had no idea he was gonna do that. He kinda just sprung it on me. And it was real.”
“It was real. All the Secret Service guys that were there made sure to let me know that, you know…they got orders to keep me away from the podium unless asked…I was like, ‘Yeah.’… I felt all the taser guns on me when I walked up there,” he said with a laugh.
Obviously, Kelce did not get tased. But it sounds like he took the warning to heart.
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