Trump's relationship with the Patriots owner Robert Kraft, head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady has been well-documented.

In a February 2017 interview with Mark Leibovich of the New York Times, Trump referred to Brady as a "friend of mine" and said Belichick "hugs me, and he kisses me, and he said: 'I love you. You're the greatest.'"

During the 2013 NFL playoffs, Trump tweeted to "never bet" against Kraft, Belichick and Brady.

 A lot of Patriots fans aren't happy with about the way Super Bowl LII ended and it has nothing to do with the fact that their team lost. For once, it was Patriots' fans who were complaining about the officiating following New England's 41-33 loss to Philadelphia on Sunday.

Hundreds of irate fans took to Twitter after the Eagles' win and they all wanted to know the same thing: Why didn't Philly get flagged for pass interference on the final play of the game?

The drama started with nine seconds left to play in the game. With the Patriots sitting at their own 49-yard line, Tom Brady knew he had to get the ball to the end zone, so he launched one of the most dramatic Hail Marys in Super Bowl history.

After the pass fell incomplete, the Eagles went into immediate celebration mode, but Patriots fans thought there should have been a flag on the play because wide receiver Chris Hogan got roughed up by an Eagles defender.

Here was the reaction from the GOP after officials didn't throw a flag on the play.

• "Can you explain to me why Chris Hogan got recked on the Hail Mary and there was no pass interference?"
  
• "Did anyone else see that blatant pass interference on Chris Hogan tho??? "
  

Even Dems and Liberals who don't cheer for the Patriots thought it was a pretty blatant inference.

• " Not a pats fan in the slightest. But they got robbed. Ertz TD was incomplete, missed defensive pass interference on the last play. Chris Hogan got decked 20 yards from the line me of scrimmage before the ball was thrown. Robbed "
  
• "I’m not a Pats fan, but didn’t Chris Hogan get destroyed like 20-30 yards downfield on that final play? How was that not Pass Interference?"
  

Although officials will almost never throw a flag on a Hail Mary play, that usually applies to the scrum in the end zone. However, with Hogan's hit, there almost certainly should've been a flag because it happened so far away from the play.

Now, if the officials had thrown a flag, that doesn't necessarily mean the Patriots would have won. If there was a penalty, it likely would have been pass interference if the ball was in the air, but if the ball wasn't in the air, then it would have been illegal contact.

If the call was PI, then the Patriots would have gotten the ball at Philly's 38-yard line. At that point, they would have been allowed to run one more offensive play in an untimed situation.

If illegal contact had been called, then the Patriots would've gotten to run one more play from Philly's 46-yard line. Either way, the Patriots probably should've been given one more play.

Tom Brady, 40, could not hide his disappointment after a dramatic 41-33 loss that ended his bid to become the first man to win six Super Bowls.

The Patriots star was also involved in the pivotal moment of a thrilling game, when he fumbled after a strip sack as he attempted to mount a game-winning drive.

Brady, who has previously spoken of his desire to play until his mid-40s, said the defeat would not alter his plans.

"I expect to be back," Brady told reporters. "It's 15 minutes after the game ended, so I would like to process this. I don't see why I wouldn't be back."

For the past several weeks, the New England Patriots quarterback has been living his best life, laying out on yachts in Italy with his supermodel wife Gisele as he serves his four-game “Deflategate” suspension. According to the terms of the suspension, Brady has not been allowed to “engage in any team football-related activities or discussions with teammates, even if away from the club facility,” according to NFL VP of Communications Brian McCarthy.

Last September, a reporter at Barstool Sports snapped a photo of one of Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” hats prominently displayed in Brady’s locker. For a celebrity as media-savvy as Brady, this didn’t seem like a mistake.

Brady called the hat a “nice keepsake” and, when asked if Trump would be president, replied, “I hope so. That would be great. There’d be a putting green on the White House lawn. I know that.” Trump responded in kind, calling the endorsement “a great honor” on Twitter. In a December interview with The Washington Post, the President bragged about the Brady endorsement, claiming that Brady sings his praises “to anyone who asks him.”

“He says it to anyone who asks him," exclaimed our Glorious Leader. "You know, it’s hard for a guy like him to say that. When you’re a football player, you don’t want to be taking sides in campaigns and having the Hillary [Clinton] people now say you’re not as good as Bart Starr. You understand. So Tom Brady is great.”

Brady addressed Trump’s comments in an interview days later with WEEI, just after Trump proposed a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting.

“Donald is a good friend of mine. I have known him for a long time. I support all my friends. That is what I have to say. He’s a good friend of mine. He’s always been so supportive of me,” said Brady. “For the last 15 years, since I judged a beauty pageant for him, which was one of the very first things that I did that I thought was really cool that came along with winning the Super Bowl. He’s always invited me to play golf and I’ve always enjoyed his company. I support all my friends in everything they do. I think it’s pretty remarkable what he’s achieved in his life. You’re going from business, kind of an incredible businessman and then a TV star, and then getting into politics. It’s three different career paths. I think that is pretty remarkable.”

Ever since that fateful day hanging out together in Gary, Indiana, Trump and Brady have remained golf buddies and close pals.

“You know, he always gives me a call and different types of motivational speeches at different times,” Brady told WEEI last September. “We’ve had a lot of time on the golf course together over the years. Probably not as much recently, but in my younger days when I would have more time that I could spend doing those types of things, before there were kids, we spent a lot of time golfing together and so forth.”

Trump, for his part, has remained one of Brady’s staunchest supporters throughout the “Deflategate” ordeal, tweeting constantly about the perceived injustice of it all, and even recording a video at his desk urging his pal to “sue the hell out of the NFL for defamation” to the tune of $250 million.

Ever since that fateful day ogling women together in Gary, Indiana, Trump and Brady have remained golf buddies and close pals.

“You know, he always gives me a call and different types of motivational speeches at different times,” Brady told WEEI last September. “We’ve had a lot of time on the golf course together over the years. Probably not as much recently, but in my younger days when I would have more time that I could spend doing those types of things, before there were kids, we spent a lot of time golfing together and so forth.”

Trump, for his part, has remained one of Brady’s staunchest supporters throughout the “Deflategate” ordeal, tweeting constantly about the perceived injustice of it all, and even recording a video at his desk urging his pal to “sue the hell out of the NFL for defamation” to the tune of $250 million.

And finally we end this recap of the Good (the Pats) being temporarily setback by the evil (the Eagles) with some sound logic: The Patriots’ “good fortune begets more good fortune,” like the nation’s elite benefiting from tax cuts. But what makes the Patriots’ dynasty perhaps the most historically impressive is that they’ve repeatedly won in an era of free agency and salary caps — which levels the economic playing field.

The MSM declares the Patriots “Trump’s team” because two old guys at the top — the owner and the head coach — have said kind things about the president. But a team (or nation) is the sum of all its citizens, including the more than two dozen Patriots — especially  our President's good friend Tom Brady!