Donald Trump has said that he won’t be attending this year’s 60th Super Bowl on 8 February, hitting out at the “terrible” performers lined up to play at the event.
Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny will be headlining this year’s half-time show – a move that sent the MAGA crowd into a frenzy and had Trump advisors saying that ICE agents would be present at the “shameful” event. Elsewhere, Green Day will play the opening ceremony, and Charlie Puth will sing the US national anthem.
Trump made comments to the New York Post, saying that the Levi’s Stadium is “just too far away” and slamming Bad Bunny and Green Day, who are vocal critics of him and his administration.
“I’m anti-them,” he said of the musicians. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Bad Bunny, who dethroned Taylor Swift as the most streamed global artist in 2025 and whose album ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ made our Top Albums of 2025, previously told fans that he would not be touring the US during his world tour due to fears over ICE agents raiding his concerts.
This has prompted MAGA supporters to announce they would be hosting a rival event that will air at the same time, problematically called The All-American Halftime Show. Good luck with that.
As for Green Day, they have never shied away from calling out Trump and his administration. The punk-pop outfit, led by Billie Joe Armstrong, have a detailed history when it comes to blasting Trump.
In 2016, Armstrong compared Trump to Hitler in British rock magazine Kerrang! and led anti-Trump chants at gigs, shouting: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.” The band also changed the lyrics to their hit song ‘American Idiot’, repeatedly swapping the line “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” - most notably during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in 2023 and at Coachella last year.
No wonder Trump won’t be singing along in the stands... Neither will Elon Musk, as he previously defended Trump, accusing the band of going "from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it."
How droll.
The 2026 Super Bowl will air on 8 February at Levi’s Stadium in Green Day’s hometown of Santa Clara, California.
