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Nate Scott

Donald Trump deletes tweet congratulating ‘Great State of Kansas’ for Super Bowl

The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday, thanks to a great fourth quarter comeback from MVP Patrick Mahomes.

After the game, President Donald Trump tweeted out a congratulations to the team, and also said the side represented the “Great State of Kansas” with the win.

The Kansas City Chiefs play in Kansas City, Missouri. While there is a Kansas City, Kansas which lies just across the border and neighbors the Missouri city, that … is not where the Chiefs play.

Trump (or his team) deleted the tweet shortly after it went up, but plenty of people caught screenshots. Here it is:

A corrected tweet went up shortly thereafter:

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