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Trump to attend National Championship Game between Georgia and Alabama

ByPatrick Schmidt|
U.S. President Donald Trump yells to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Trump is departing the White House for travel to Palm Beach, Florida, where he is expected to stay at his Mar-a-Lago club until January 1. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
U.S. President Donald Trump yells to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Trump is departing the White House for travel to Palm Beach, Florida, where he is expected to stay at his Mar-a-Lago club until January 1. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The crowd for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game between Alabama and Georgia will have a famous spectator on hand as President Trump will be in attendance.

Georgia and Alabama will meet in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Monday, Jan. 8 and among those expected to be in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia is none other than President Donald Trump.

While Trump has made an enemy of the NFL in recent months because players kneeled during the national anthem to protest social injustices, claimed the ratings were in the tank and called NFL players “sons of b******, he hasn’t taken any shots at the college game. Trump attended last year’s game between Army and Navy fresh off his winning the election, but was in Mississippi for the opening of a Civil Rights Museum last December.

Trump will be joined by First Lady Melania Trump and be hosted by Georgia native Nick Ayers and Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, and his wife Jamie Ayers, according to Politically Georgia. It remains to be seen if Trump will be joined by any other of his allies in Georgia will be with him for the game.

The states of Georgia and Alabama were big Trump states when he won the election last November, but it is unclear which school he will be rooting for in the game between the two SEC programs. Maybe someone can make him one of those combo jerseys that’s half Alabama and half Georgia? You know you see parents wear those when they have kids on both teams and don’t want to upset either one so they root for the both? Yeah, that would be cool.

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For those attending the game next Monday, you can expect increased security around the stadium before, during and after the game with Trump in attendance. It likely will result in longer lines to get through the gates with added security measures like turning on all your electronic devices to make sure they work, among other things.

But that’ll be a minor inconvenience to be in the same building with the most powerful man in the country, Nick Saban.

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