President Trump will attend the Washington Commanders game Sunday when they host the Detroit Lions, sports commentator Pat McAfee revealed on Friday.

“He will be excited to celebrate the hell out of the greatest sport on earth, American football, so that’s breaking news,” McAfee said while hosting his ESPN show from an empty football tunnel in Lubbock, Texas. The official White House X account reposted McAfee’s announcement with the eyeball emojis, which we can only assume means one thing — the Commander in Chief will be at the Commanders’ game.

We have some BREAKING NEWS..

Source(s) are telling me that President Donald Trump will be attending the Commanders and Lions game on Sunday #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/sL6OaPQIfd

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) November 7, 2025

McAfee, in his enthusiastic voice and a cowboy hat, said the president is going to the NFL game for the Veterans Day celebration at halftime. Trump will sit with Commanders’ owner Josh Harris in his suite. The halftime celebration includes a salute to TAPS Families along with a performance from the Commanders Marching Band, according to the team.

Sunday’s game is the first NFL game of the season for Trump. Earlier this year, he made history as the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl. During his first term as president, Trump went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2019 to watch the Crimson Tide take on LSU, who would go on to win the national championship that year.

Before that season, he attended the 2018 National Championship game in Atlanta between Alabama and Georgia. He’s attended other college games, most recently last football season, weeks before his re-election, when he traveled to Alabama again to watch the Crimson Tide play Georgia.

Trump is a football fan. What he is not a fan of is the NFL’s new kickoff rule, where no players can move until the ball hits the ground or touches the returner. Trump called it “sissy football” and “ridiculous.”

The “Tush Push,” a controversial play where players push the quarterback forward from behind, has Trump’s full backing.

The Lions, who travel to the nation’s capital for Sunday’s game, are coached by Dan Campbell, who many agree is the toughest coach in the NFL. However, “The Pat McAfee Show” hosts joked that Campbell could only be intimidated by one person: President Trump.

“He might have two tins in his mouth at one time just to kinda go through the anxiety,” McAfee said, referring to the chewing tobacco that Campbell has been known to use during games.

The Lions (5-3) are the favorites heading into Sunday afternoon’s contest, but are coming off a loss to the Minnesota Vikings in a game in which the Lions’ offense struggled to move the ball. The Commanders are 3-6 on the year. Washington’s franchise quarterback, Jayden Daniels, is out for the foreseeable future after suffering an elbow injury last week against Seattle. Backup quarterback Marcus Mariota will get the nod against Detroit in what seems to be a must-win for Washington to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Sunday’s game kicks off at 4:25 p.m. EST.

A Democrat-backed bill sitting on Governor JB Pritzker’s desk would turn Illinois into an assisted suicide destination and severely curtail the rights of Christian doctors, a conservative legal group is warning. 

Just a few hours after midnight on Halloween morning, Democrats in the Illinois Senate rammed through legislation that would legalize doctor-assisted suicide in a 30–27 vote. The bill, which was passed by the state House in May, is awaiting Pritzker’s signature. It would allow doctors to prescribe deadly pills to those who are sick and have been given a prognosis of less than six months to live. 

Conservative groups in the state say that the legislation would force doctors to promote and make referrals for the deadly practice.

“You’re not just allowing physicians to give people deadly drugs to kill themselves, but you’re actually forcing us or people of faith, to be part of it, to promote it,” Peter Breen, the head of litigation at Thomas More Society, told The Daily Wire. “I know of no other state where the legislature has gone this far in restricting the religious liberty rights of people of faith.”

While the bill says that doctors would not be forced to participate in prescribing the fatal pills, Breen said that the text contains provisions that would “force institutions and physicians to refer for and to inform about the opportunity to take deadly drugs and end your life.”

Breen noted that parts of the bill would make it impossible for a Christian hospital to fire a doctor who promoted assisted suicide or facilitated one off the grounds of the hospital. 

Currently, 11 states and Washington, D.C., allow for physician-assisted suicide, but Illinois would be the first in America’s heartland. 

“Illinois would become the first state in the middle of the country to enact assisted suicide,” Breen said. “There’s a significant concern that this is going to turn Illinois into a suicide tourism state.”

He said that what Illinois Democrats were trying to do was “beyond the pale” and that assisted suicide was in opposition to Christian ethics. The Illinois Catholic Conference has come out strongly against the bill and urged Pritzker to veto it. 

While Breen acknowledged that Pritzker was one of the most leftist governors in America, he said he had some “hope” that he would veto it because of the religious liberty implications. 

Pritzker has not yet signaled whether he will sign the measure. 

“I know how terrible it is that someone who’s in the last six months of their life could be experiencing terrible pain and anguish. And I know people who’ve gone through that,” he said on Monday. “It hits me deeply and makes me wonder about, you know, how we can alleviate the pain that they’re going through?”

If Pritzker signs the legislation, Breen said that the Thomas More Society would sue to block it. The law firm has already challenged Illinois over a similar law forcing crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion.