Democrats diss KC Chiefs, Mahomes, Kelce, Butker on video | Opinion
Your Kansas City Chiefs are a having a rough go of it this season, and the Democratic Party is having a blast with that.
Following a loss to the Houston Texans on “Sunday Night Football,” the Chiefs are on the verge of missing the playoffs for the first time in the Patrick Mahomes era and the first time in the past 10 years.
The national Democratic Party celebrated by posting a video on X showing Chiefs lowlights from the Houston game, interspersed with shots of President Donald Trump shanking golf chip shots and tripping while walking up the stairs into Air Force One.
It’s brutal stuff.
The video starts with Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker clanking a field goal attempt off the right upright.
It also features two Mahomes interceptions, including a bobbled pass by tight end Travis Kelce with 3:34 left in the game that was picked off his shoulder to seal the Houston win; also a screen-pass drop by running back Kareem Hunt and wide receiver Rashee Rice getting de-cleated on a devastating hit by Texans safety Jalen Pitre.
The clips are soundtracked to “Outstanding,” the 1982 R&B hit by The Gap Band. The chorus:
Outstanding (So outstanding, yeah)
Girl, you knock me out
Excited (I’m so excited, baby)
It makes me wanna shout (Baby)
The video was posted with a one-word caption: “Washed.”
Ouch. Just ouch.
The video kicked the Kansas Republican Party into a state of high dudgeon (although to be honest, that’s where they usually are these days).
“Democrats thought it was smart to insult the The Kansas City Chiefs and tick off thousands of fans this week,” the party’s Facebook post thundered. “It backfired. Just shows they will root against the home-team and attack America First wins when it doesn’t serve their agenda. All they know how to do is tear down and destroy things people love and care about. Smart!”
Chiefs and Trump? It’s complicated
The relationship between the Chiefs and Trump is, shall we say, complicated.
Last year, when Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl, he was effusive in praising the Chiefs on his Truth Social network.
“What a GREAT Team, Coach, Quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic FANS, that voted for me (MAGA!) in record numbers,” Trump wrote after the Chiefs beat the Buffalo Bills to advance to the championship game.
Mahomes, who always strives to maintain political neutrality, said it was “cool” that the president would be at the big game.
Even Kelce managed to grit his teeth and aver, “It’s a great honor I think, no matter who the president is.”
That was a remarkably diplomatic response, given that a few months earlier Trump had posted “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” amid other insults after the pop megastar (then Kelce’s girlfriend, now his fiancée) endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Butker, on the other hand, is riding shotgun on the MAGA bandwagon.
He caught the president’s attention with his graduation speech at Benedictine College in May of last year, where he essentially told the male graduates to go forth and lead the world and the female graduates to go forth and have their babies.
It wasn’t long before Butker was appointed to a reformed President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, and invited to a White House signing ceremony where Trump called him “young superstar.”
But this year, the Chiefs are battling just to hang on.
While not mathematically eliminated from contention, they need to win out their remaining games and get a lot of help from other teams just to get past the regular season.
After the Houston loss, their chance of making the playoffs is estimated between 10% and 15%.
Political implications bigger than Kansas and Missouri
So is chortling at the Chiefs’ struggles smart politics for the Democrats?
Maybe.
If you’re just looking at Kansas and certain parts of Missouri, then dissing the Kansas City Chiefs is obviously a no-fly zone.
But Democrats seldom win any significant elections in Chiefs Kingdom anyway, so the potential damage here is minimal.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is substantially less adoring of the Chiefs.
Practically every other NFL market is tired of losing to the Mahomes-Kelce-Butker triumvirate. And there’s a national sense that the Chiefs’ historic run of success — five Super Bowls and three championships in six years — got more than a little help from friendly officiating along the way.
If you look at the Chiefs’ historic AFC West rivalries, they’re the Denver Broncos (blue state), the Los Angeles Chargers (blue state) and the Las Vegas Raiders (swing state).
You’re not going to lose many votes kicking the Chiefs when they’re down in those environs.
You’ll probably pick up more than a few.
This story was originally published December 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM with the headline "Democrats diss KC Chiefs, Mahomes, Kelce, Butker on video | Opinion."
