President Donald Trump is opting out of this year’s Super Bowl after becoming the first sitting President to attend last year’s Big Game.
Trump says he won’t attend the Feb. 8 event in San Francisco and slammed Latin trap superstar Bad Bunny and rock icons Green Day in the process.
“I’m anti-them,” he said to the The New York Post. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Despite his comments, Trump claimed the performers weren’t the main reason for skipping the game.
“It’s just too far away. I would. I’ve [gotten] great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me,” he said. “I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.”
Trump vs Bad Bunny
Still, Trump’s history with Bad Bunny tells a deeper story.
The Puerto Rican-born global superstar has openly criticized Trump and his policies. Last year, Trump dismissed Bad Bunny in an interview, saying, “I’ve never heard of him… I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s crazy.”
Benito has also expressed serious concerns about immigration enforcement at his events, revealing he avoided bringing his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour to the U.S. out of fear that ICE could target his concerts. Those fears intensified after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced ICE would be present at the Super Bowl, stating, “We’ll be all over that place. We’re going to enforce the law.”
The cultural clash intensified further with Bad Bunny’s 2025 song “Nuevayol,” which featured an imitation Trump voice apologizing to immigrants and declaring America “nothing without immigrants.”