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Featured on Snopes today: President Trump congratulates the state of Kansas on Super Bowl win, Ron Howard gets credit for a political statement he never made, and lots more!

by Snopes Staff, Feb. 1, 2020



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Impeachment-weary Americans took a brief respite from politics on Sunday to enjoy Super Bowl LIV, in which the Kansas City Chiefs bested the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20.

The winning team is based in Kansas City, Missouri, so there was no small amount of consternation when word got around that President Donald Trump had tweeted a congratulatory note to the Chiefs and “the great state of Kansas.”

Did Trump really name the wrong state in his Super Bowl tribute? David Mikkelson has the story.


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