Donald Trump Predicts: Dallas Cowboys Loss, Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Breakup
FRISCO - Former President Donald Trump's most infamous NFL-related prediction called for the financial failure of Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys. But in terms of being attention-getting - and maybe wrong, for who knows? - Trump's new pop-culture prognostication may top that.
“I wish the best for both of them,'' Trump said this week, commenting on the romance if starlet Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. "I hope they enjoy their life, maybe together, maybe not - most likely not.''
Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Travis Kelce
That seems - to use one of Trump's favorite words - "nasty.'' But it also serves as proof that the pairing has garnered an incredible level of attention for all involved. Just from Swift having attending last week's Chiefs game (and spending a great deal of time on the national TV cameras), Kelce’s merchandise sales jumped 400 percent. And, speaking of crossing into politics, Swift put out one Instagram story last week urging her fans to register to vote, causing participation on the site to jump up by 1,226 percent in ensuing next hour.
And suddenly “Sunday Night Football,” pitting the high-profile and successful Chiefs against the high-profile but unsuccessful Jets in New York, is a can't-miss event ... and could become one of the highest-rated NBC programs of all-time.
Said Cowboys owner Jones: "It is hard to move that needle dramatically on a great feeling, a great attraction in the NFL. We get a lot of eye balls. She blew it off the charts. It is amazing. It makes you smile."
Jones himself is a guy who's made the NFL an "attraction'' since buying the Cowboys for $140 million in 1989. ... a move that in the '80's wealthy celebrity Trump thought foolish.
“I could have bought an NFL team,'' Trump said. "“I feel sorry for the poor guy who is going to buy the Dallas Cowboys.''
rump instead became owner of the New Jersey Generals of the USFL, and a few years later, Jones bought the Cowboys ... a franchise that is now worth what some estimate to be $10 billion.
