Trump says he won’t attend this year’s Super Bowl in California after going in 2025
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President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to skip next month’s Super Bowl, criticizing halftime players and lamenting that the California game is too far away.
Trump, who attended the match between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans last year, said: New York Post: “Too far. I would, I would [gotten] great hands [at] Super Bowl. They like me.”
This year’s Super Bowl will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, near San Jose.
“If it was a little shorter, I would go,” he added.
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The president criticized the NFL’s selection of Bad Bunny and Green Day to perform. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)
The President has also publicly criticized leading lady Bad Bunny since he was chosen to perform at the Halftime Show last year.
“I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax last fall about his pick. “I don’t know why they’re doing this. It’s crazy. Then they blame it on some promoters they hired for the entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Rock band Green Day was also chosen to play before kickoff last week.
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Bad Bunny and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong are liberal artists who have expressed their dislike of Trump in the past.
Bad Bunny said he decided to hold his residency in his native Puerto Rico last fall and did not set a U.S. date for his tour out of fear that fans would be detained by ICE agents.
President Donald Trump took the field before the Super Bowl last year. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
“But there was the problem of ICE being out there. [my concert]. “And it’s something that we’ve talked about and are very concerned about,” the Latin pop star, who has a large Latin following, told i-D.
The 31-year-old actor included a person who gives the impression of Trump in his song “Nuevayol” and said, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
According to The Independent, Armstrong has compared Trump to Hitler in the past, and the band frequently changes the line “I’m not part of a MAGA agenda” from their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of an ignorant agenda” in more recent live performances.
President Trump watches the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’m against them,” Trump told the Post of artists. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. It’s terrible.”
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Last year’s Halftime Show featured Kendrick Lamar headlining and SZA, Jon Batiste, Lauren Daigle, Trombone Shorty and Ledisi also performing.
The Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, February 8, with the Seattle Seahawks-Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots-Denver Broncos championship games deciding who will play on Sunday.
