Should KC be offended that Trump thinks Chiefs are from the ‘Great State of Kansas’?

Lots of those silver-spoon elitists Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is always talking about may think Kansas City is in Kansas, too, so we’ll try not to take it too hard that the president tweeted his congratulations to the “Great State of Kansas” after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday.

When President Donald Trump was in Kansas City just over a year ago, he praised the work of law enforcement officers “right here in St. Louis,” and we didn’t let that ruin our day, either.

Our mayor, Quinton Lucas, who’s been dreaming of a Kansas City Super Bowl win since he was a little kid keeping a color-coded Chiefs notebook, definitely didn’t let Trump’s misfire rain on his parade. “I’m really just glad the president corrected himself,” he said, since “that’s not always a given. Progress perhaps?”

Probably not. But Senator Hawley, next time you sing that song about all the out-of-touch coastal elites who think this is “flyover country,” and so can’t be bothered to learn that like New York and New Jersey or Maryland and Virginia, Kansas and Missouri are adjoining but very different states, please remember whom you’re talking about.

Meanwhile, Trump’s fellow New York rich guy and presidential aspirant Mike Bloomberg is enjoying trolling Trump. On Monday, he put out a statement headlined, “Mike Bloomberg 2020 Announces Field Office Openings in Kansas City, Missouri...Not Kansas.”

Bloomberg promised to “bring opportunity to the people and places often overlooked,” and noted that the president “doesn’t even know where the state’s largest city is located.”

This story was originally published February 3, 2020 at 11:11 AM.