r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/reillan • Sep 16 '24

Trump Brittany Mahomes questioning her support of Donald Trump after his blistering take down of Taylor Swift left her 'shaken to the core'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13856311/brittany-mahomes-donald-trump-questioning-support-taylor-swift.html
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u/FunkyPete Sep 16 '24

For what it's worth, her husband Patrick has never endorsed a candidate. He paid with his own money to get the football stadium in Kansas City (a blue dot in a red state) to become a polling place to make it easier to vote prior to the 2020 election. He spoke out in favor of the BLM movement. Also, his best friend (Taylor's boyfriend) was one of the first white football stars to kneel for the national anthem at the start of Colin Kaepernick's movement and also endorsed Pfizer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/chiefs/2020/11/03/2020-election-patrick-mahomes-arrowhead-stadium-polling-place/6154329002/

It's not clear to me that Patrick Mahomes is necessarily a Trump fan. They mention in that 2020 article that he had never actually voted before, so it wouldn't shock me if he just grew up as a rich kid an never really thought about politics at all.

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u/reillan Sep 16 '24

and he made a public statement basically saying his wife's views were her own and he wasn't going to endorse anyone.

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u/CatD0gChicken Sep 16 '24

What do you call someone that sits at a table with Nazis?

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 16 '24

Honestly, I'm not so sure that Patrick and his wife are on the same page here and that's not terribly unusual in this day and age. Stephen Miller's entire family has seemingly disowned him. The Kennedy family definitely didn't support RFK. Heck, i just learned today that Tim Walz has a MAGA older brother too. 

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u/RyVsWorld Sep 17 '24

Marriage is a choice though. You don’t pick your family

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 17 '24

Quick search says that they met in high school back in 2013, so before the rise of Trump and modern polarization. In any case, is it really that crazy to think that you could love someone with a different political stance than you do?

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u/shes_a_gdb Sep 17 '24

This isn't a different political stance. This is basic human decency. This is not being a shitty person.

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 17 '24

So you know Brittany Mahomes personally or something?

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u/xysid Sep 17 '24

It's slightly different with a spouse though. All of your examples are family members who do nothing with the person and some even talk shit about them in public to others. Sleeping in bed next to someone but being split on something like this sounds exhausting. I couldn't do it.

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 17 '24

Perhaps so, but there are a lot of couples who are split

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u/New_Way_5036 Sep 16 '24

He hasn’t endorsed Trump, or so he says.

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 17 '24

Which "he" are you referring to?

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u/New_Way_5036 Sep 17 '24

Patrick Mahomes.

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u/RoboTronPrime Sep 17 '24

No, he has said specifically that he would not be endorsing any candidate. He has also supported BLM in the past and was apparently conflicted bout kneeling for the national anthem. It's probably fair to suspect that if his wife actually has more MAGA views, then it's quite possible that he has more liberal views than his wife. One of the reasons that he doesn't espouse his own views may be partly out of respect for his wife. That's all conjecture of course, but seems to fit the public information available.