President Donald Trump should go to the New England Patriots big game Sunday.

He could surprise the sports world by sitting up in the owner’s box with Robert Kraft, his one-time buddy, to watch the Patriots take on the Buffalo Bills for division dominance and a pathway to the Super Bowl.

Kraft would have had to invite him, of course. Trump in return could help Kraft — turned down for the thirteenth time last week — to finally get in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

While Trump did not enter the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Hall of Fame, he knows his way around peace prizes. That is why he was awarded the first FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) Peace Prize during the World Cup ceremony in Washington a week ago.

So, an invite from Kraft would have been nice. But Trump being Trump could invite himself.

And what better way for Trump to check out his popularity in a state he has never carried by showing up on a New England wintry day before a packed stadium of 65,875 cheering fans and a national television audience?

The Gillette Stadium reaction to Trump would be more meaningful than any slanted public opinion poll conducted by progressives polling progressives. He never wins those.

And Trump, a golfer, is a legitimate sports fan who has no need to fake it when it comes to attending sporting events like so many other politicians do.

Trump loves sports, he shows up for games. If he is not at the games, he brings the sporting event to him, as he will do in June when the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) sponsors eight or nine mixed martial arts (MMA) fights on the South Lawn of the White House. Trump is a big fan.

It is the first time young men will beat other young men to a pulp at the White House rather than downtown Washington. The fights will be like beat-down carjackings without the car or muggings without the cops.

And Trump, of course, will be in attendance, as he should be at the Patriots’ game.

When is the last time you saw Gov. Maura Healey at an MMA fight, let alone a Patriots game?”

You probably never will until they allow transgender quarterbacks. And does Sen. Elizabeth Warren even know where Gillette Stadium is?

Boston Mayor Michele Wu does not show up at any games either, probably because she can’t tax Foxboro the way she taxes Boston.

Trump loves winners. And no matter how you look at it, the Patriots are winners, just as he was in 2024 when few gave him a chance of ever being elected again.

Few, including the sports writers, gave the Patriots much hope in the 2025 season. The political writers in 2024 wrote Trump off, too.

But look what happened. Trump succeeded hapless Joe Biden and Coach Mike Vrabel replaced winless Coach Jerod Mayo, and both he and the Patriots became winners again.

Trump could bond with Patriot fans who, like him, know what it takes to have made the New England Patriots great again.

He could make his surprise visit as a stop on his tour of the country, touting his economic achievements that began last week in Pennsylvania.

Trump and Kraft have a history together. Trump hosted Kraft and the Super Bowl-winning Patriots at the White House in 2017 and 2019. Kraft was a supporter and financial contributor to Trump before distancing himself from Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

Trump is not running again and does not need Kraft or any votes from Massachusetts.

But he is big on celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the enduring democracy of the United States.

That revolution was a world-changing historical event that was started by a bunch of patriots in Boston.

And the Patriots are hot again, just like Trump.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (Matt Stone/Boston Herald)