It’s your Uncle Sam, and this is the great American game!” The stakes of the Super Bowl halftime show have never been higher. As Kendrick Lamar appears crouched in a spotlight on the hood of a classic GNX car beneath the crab-like eyes of Donald J Trump – the first sitting president ever to attend a Super Bowl – he seems impishly intent on using the biggest moment of his career so far to charm and disarm the cruel world order.

The Super Bowl, in which the Eagles routed the Chiefs 40-22, was more than just a showdown between a franchise with two wins under its belt — and the support of the president — and a scrappy underdog from Philadelphia.