Why won’t Trump attend the Super Bowl this year? It’s too far away!
President Donald Trump, who became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl last year, decided to skip this year’s game.
Speaking to The New York Post on Saturday, the president cited the distance to the game as the reason he will miss Super Bowl LX on February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
“It’s too far away. I would do it. I’ve [gotten] big hands [at] the Super Bowl. “They like it,” he said. “I would go if, you know, it was a little shorter.”
Trump also condemned the NFL’s entertainment lineup for the game: rock band Green Day for the opening ceremony and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny as the halftime headliner.
“I’m against them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is spread hate. Terrible,” Trump said of the musicians.
Bad Bunny is a world-renowned rapper and singer who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. He has publicly criticized Trump’s increasing ICE raids, and his defense of Puerto Rico has been reprimanded for MAGA Supporters.
After the singer was announced as a Super Bowl headliner, many on the right complained about the three-time Grammy winner. acting in Spanish. Responded to the outrage during his monologue on “Saturday Night Live.”
“I’m very happy and I think everyone is happy about this, even News,” Bad Bunny said.
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In an interview with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly in October, Trump addressed Bad Bunny’s upcoming Super Bowl performance.
“I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s like crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter they hired to do entertainment,” Trump said. “I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Jay-Z and his company, Roc Nation, are behind the selection of Super Bowl halftime performers as part of a partnership with the NFL that began in 2019.
The members of Green Day, who have won four Grammy Awards and toured for more than 30 years, have long been outspoken critics of the Trump administration. Earlier this month, the band criticized Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda while performing at a concert in Los Angeles.
“This song is anti-fascism. This song is anti-war,” singer Billie Joe Armstrong announced at the Jan. 17 show before the band played their hit song “Holiday.” “We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota.”
The rockers also changed the song’s lyrics to take aim at Trump’s national security adviser, Stephen Miller, who has been a driving force behind the Trump administration’s controversial immigration agenda.