Eagles risk Donald Trump's wrath as owner Jeffrey Lurie makes statement over Super Bowl White House visit

Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie has risked angering President Donald Trump aft helium said the team's Super Bowl White House sojourn was 'totally optional.'

After beating the Chiefs successful Super Bowl LIX, the Eagles accepted an invitation to sojourn the White House connected April 28.

The squad did not sojourn Trump astatine the White House successful 2018 aft winning the title that year, arsenic the medication un-invited them aft it emerged the Eagles would lone beryllium sending a tiny radical of players.

Now, Lurie has suggested erstwhile again that immoderate Eagles could skip the visit. 

'Our civilization is that these are optional things,' Lurie told reporters from the league's yearly meetings, per Pro Football Talk. 'If you privation to bask this, travel on and we'll person a large clip and if you don't, it is wholly an optional thing.'

A White House authoritative antecedently said that the squad 'enthusiastically accepted' an invitation to sojourn the historical site, and Lurie said the accidental to spot the White House was a 'time honored tradition' and that determination was 'no reticence' from the squad to judge the invite.

Still, helium said they were 'not politicizing' the invitation successful immoderate way. 

'To beryllium celebrated astatine the White House is simply a bully thing,' Lurie continued. 'There were peculiar circumstances [in 2018] that were precise different, and truthful this was benignant of an evident prime and look guardant to it....

“When you turn up and you perceive about, ‘Oh, the title squad got to spell to the White House,’ that’s what this is. And truthful we didn’t person that accidental and present we do. I deliberation we’re each looking guardant to it.”

The Eagles' would-be White House sojourn successful 2018 was acceptable to travel aft Trump criticized NFL players who protested during the nationalist anthem, which applied to respective Eagles.

The squad indicated that lone a tiny fig of players were going to marque the travel to DC and Trump past rescinded the invite.

This clip around, it was initially rumored that the Eagles wouldn't beryllium making the trip, but they are acceptable to sojourn Trump aboriginal this month, with the Ohio State shot squad visiting 2 weeks anterior connected April 14.

Eagles manager Nick Sirianni told reporters this week that helium was 'really excited' for the trip. 

'What an honor. What an grant to beryllium capable to spell to the White House,' helium said, via Fox News.

'Teams that person been capable to triumph championships person been doing that for a agelong time, and I'm truly honored to spell and truly excited to go.'