HOUSTON — Monday was Trump Day in Houston. 

Heck, we can expect the same thing through Sunday night.

Your president and the New England Patriots, for better or, really, for worse, are connected like Trump to his Twitter account.

Welcome to the 21st century and the new Super Bowl.

Over a year ago, a Boston sports columnist implored that Tom Brady, who was caught with one of those dorky, red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps in his locker stall, disparage and disavow Donald Trump and his prospective presidency.

The message was basically this: “Save us, Tom, from this crazy, evil person. It is your obligation to save us!”

And that was well before the famous Billy Bush off-the-record audio (Trump bragging about womanizing) and several dozen “unpresidential” tweets.

Hating the New England Patriots, for non-New Englanders, is akin to breathing.

Here were a few standard reasons: They win. They are arrogant. They “cheat.” Bill Belichick’s press conferences. Brady is too perfect. And they win too much.

Enter the newest: Brady, Belichick and Bob Kraft — the Patriots own version of “The Killer B’s” — all “support” Trump.

Of course, we know this to be the case because our president has bragged about their support for over a year, citing letters, emails, phone calls and texts.

For the most part, the trio has publicly been mum on Trump.

Belichick has been playing the “We’re on to Cincinnati” tune and Brady has only said they’ve been friends for several years and politics is not part of it.

Kraft has been in hiding for more than a year due to his strong friendship with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, not wanting to hurt his image with Patriots fans, which is also important to him. The fans despise Goodell’s actions the last two years.

Then Super Bowl Week started on Monday when the Patriots arrived in Houston. The Patriots might as well have flown in on Trump’s personal jet because metaphorically he arrived with them.

You see, the Super Bowl is no longer a championship football game. All you have to know is that Lady Gaga’s press conference at the Convention Center dwarfed anything football related with nearly 1,000 people packing the main ballroom at the convention center. 

The halftime performer is expected to come with her own amateur political message in tow — see illegal immigration, border walls, Trump’s hair, etc.

I get it. The more people the merrier. (See more revenues and happy NFL owners.)

A young woman for SB Report wrote a column last month saying the “Patriots have a Trump problem.”

She learned about New England fans after that politically-drenched column — ultra-passionate, ultra-crazed, ultra-protective and ultra-vengeful (sorry about the last one), implying Belichick, Brady and Kraft have a problem because of Trump.

After Sunday, the Patriots will have played in seven Super Bowls in 16 seasons (44 percent). They have overcome and disassociated themselves with distractions much bigger than being the president’s pal.

Despite the noise this week, the Patriots don’t have a Trump problem.

Their problem is figuring out how to keep Julio Jones out of the end zone.

Bill Burt is executive sports editor for CNHI Sports Boston. You can email him at bburt@eagletribune.com.