President Donald Trump says he is planning to boycott Super Bowl LX while voicing his dislike for the big game’s performers, Bad Bunny and the rock group Green Day, led by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
“I’m anti-them,” Trump, 79, told The New York Post of his Super Bowl 2026 plans in an interview published on Friday, January 23. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
The commander-in-chief also claimed that Super Bowl 60, set for 6:30 pm EST on Sunday, February 8, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, is “just too far away.”
Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl when he appeared in person to watch the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 59. (The Eagles walked away victorious in a 40-22 win at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.)
The president will sit out this year, however, amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Bad Bunny’s halftime performance. Some conservative pundits, influencers and Republican lawmakers criticized the NFL’s decision to have the Puerto Rican native, real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, perform the converted halftime show, arguing it was somehow “un-American.” (Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States and Bad Bunny is a legal U.S. citizen.)
In September 2025, former race car driver Danica Patrick complained via X that performing “no songs in English should not be allowed at one of America’s highest rated television events of the year,” before later calling for an alternate halftime show to be performed in English.
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“I don’t have any problem with someone performing at halftime that is not from the United States, although Bad Bunny is technically a citizen because he was born in Puerto Rico,” Patrick, 43, said on the “War Room” podcast at the time. “He wasn’t necessarily born in America. I don’t care where you’re actually born. What I care about is that I can sing along to the music. His music is almost nothing in English.”
Others took issue with the singer’s criticism of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration policy, including the deployment of ICE officers in various cities which, to date, has resulted in the death of two U.S. citizens.
In October 2025, Bad Bunny publicly addressed the backlash while hosting Saturday Night Live.
“You may not know this but I’m doing the Super Bowl Halftime Show,” Bad Bunny said at the time, eliciting an excited response from the Studio 8H audience. “I’m very happy and I think everyone is very happy about it! Even Fox News…”
The sketch comedy show then played a montage of news coverage critical of his Super Bowl spot, though it was edited to say: “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician and he should be the next president.”
“Really, I’m very excited to be doing the Super Bowl and I know people all around the world who love my music are also happy,” he told viewers back in Studio 8H.
The rapper then spoke in Spanish before switching back to English and telling viewers, “If you didn’t understand now what I just said, you have four months to learn!”
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