{"id":11104,"date":"2026-01-25T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/trump-to-skip-super-bowl-in-california-criticizes-performers-bad-bunny-and-green-day\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:01:09","slug":"trump-to-skip-super-bowl-in-california-criticizes-performers-bad-bunny-and-green-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/trump-to-skip-super-bowl-in-california-criticizes-performers-bad-bunny-and-green-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to skip Super Bowl in California, criticizes performers Bad Bunny and Green Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Saturday said he plans to skip next month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/super-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Bowl<\/a>, slamming the halftime performers and griping that the California game is too far away.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who attended last year\u2019s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/24\/us-news\/trump-tells-the-post-hes-skipping-the-super-bowl-slams-halftime-performers-bad-bunny-and-green-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post:<\/a> &#8220;It\u2019s just too far away.\u00a0I would, I\u2019ve [gotten] great hands [at] the Super\u00a0Bowl. They like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Super Bowl will be held at Levi\u2019s Stadium in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara, California<\/a>, near San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/nfl-taps-black-national-anthem-performer-super-bowl-lx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NFL TAPS BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM PERFORMER FOR SUPER BOWL LX<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/roger-goodell-stands-firm-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-after-trump-calls-selection-ridiculous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">openly critical of headline performer <\/a>Bad Bunny since he was chosen last year to perform at the Halftime Show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know who he is,&#8221; Trump told Newsmax of the choice last fall. &#8220;I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it. It\u2019s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it\u2019s absolutely ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock band Green Day was also selected in the last week to play before the kickoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kristi-noem-torches-nfl-weak-vows-ice-show-super-bowl-bad-bunny-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>KRISTI NOEM TORCHES NFL AS &#8216;WEAK,&#8217; VOWS ICE WILL SHOW UP AT SUPER BOWL AMID BAD BUNNY SCANDAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny and Green Day\u2019s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong are both liberal performers who have been vocal about their dislike of Trump in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny said last fall that he decided to do his residency show in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/travel\/vacation-destinations\/puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his native Puerto Rico<\/a> and didn&#8217;t book any U.S. dates on his tour over fears his fans would be detained by ICE agents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there was the issue of, like, f&#8212;ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it\u2019s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,&#8221; the Latin pop star, who has a large Latino following, told i-D.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old also featured a person doing a Trump impression in his song &#8220;Nuevayol,&#8221; saying, &#8220;I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong has likened Trump to Hitler in the past and the band frequently changes the line &#8220;I\u2019m not part of a redneck agenda&#8221; from their 2004 hit &#8220;American Idiot&#8221; to &#8220;I\u2019m not part of the MAGA agenda&#8221; in more recent live performances, according to The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m anti-them,&#8221; Trump told the Post of the performers. &#8220;I think it\u2019s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. 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