President Trump will have unfettered access to the Super Bowl pregame's huge national audience, for better or worse

The New York Times

Even though President Reagan appeared on the Super Bowl pregame show in 1986, President Obama made the Super Bowl pregame interview an annual tradition for all eight years that he was in the Oval Office. It's something that President Trump has continued -- except for 2018 when NBC had the Super Bowl. But this year will be different with Sean Hannity of Fox News, an informal Trump advisor, interviewing the president. "This year’s Super Bowl comes at an amazing moment, a confluence of political circumstances and events that give this particular bully pulpit a power and a spotlight it hasn’t had in years," says Will Leitch. "With impeachment, the Iowa caucuses and the State of the Union all on deck, Mr. Trump will have a stage, and a famously pliant interviewer, that is unparalleled in American culture. It is possible that he’s going to have this open platform in front of the country the very weekend he’s acquitted for impeachment. He couldn’t ask for a more ideal year for it to be Fox’s turn to air the game."