Patrick Mahomes Has Not Taken a Political Stance, but His Wife Sure Has

Like many all-time great athletes before him, Patrick Mahomes seems intent on alienating as few people as possible. After all, as Michael Jordan once said, Republicans buy sneakers too. Recently, though, and thanks in part to his wife, some have wondered what Patrick's political beliefs might be.

His wife has been embroiled in some controversy over speculation that she is a Trump supporter, and she hasn't exactly denied those claims. Here's what we know about whether Patrick or his wife is a Trump supporter.

Patrick has never endorsed a candidate for president, and he seems determined to remain as apolitical as possible.

“I don’t want to pressure anyone to vote for a certain president,” Patrick said in an interview with Time. “I want people to use their voice, whoever they believe in. I want them to do the research.”

It's unclear what his political beliefs might be, but Patrick's plan seems to be to stick to football talk as much as he can.

His wife, though, has been less careful about her own political beliefs. Recently, Brittany Mahomes faced some controversy after she was caught liking a post from Donald Trump's official Instagram page. In the post, Trump outlines his platform for reelection, which includes "keep men OUT of women's sports" and “end the weaponization of government against the American people.”

After she faced backlash for liking the post (and then unliking it), Brittany made a veiled reference to her "haters" in an Instagram Story.

“I mean honestly,” she wrote in the Story. “To be a hater as an adult, you have to have some deep-rooted issues you refuse to heal from childhood. There's no reason your brain is fully developed and you hate to see others doing well.”

Although she liked the post, Brittany has not explicitly endorsed a presidential candidate, and she does not follow Trump on social media. The Instagram Story does not mention Trump or the post by name, but seems to suggest that some people need to spend less of their time checking who she's liked on social media, which, you know, could be a fair point.

Since Taylor Swift started dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, she and Brittany have been friendly with one another, and the four have been seen hanging out on several occasions. Taylor has not made any sort of endorsement in the 2024 campaign (in spite of Trump's AI-generated image saying that she had endorsed him), but in 2020 she was a vocal critic of Trump and endorsed Joe Biden.

Of course, people with different political opinions can still be friends, although it's rarer than it used to be. It seems like a subject that may not come up all that often. Patrick seems to want to avoid it whenever he can, although he has encouraged people to vote, which is definitely a plus. He probably won't express any political opinions past that point if he doesn't have to.