US President Donald Trump is not coming to this year’s Super Bowl. The US tabloid New York Post reported this, citing an interview with the Republican. At the same time, Trump expressed criticism of the music acts at the final of the US football league NFL in February in California. The artists are considered critical of Trump.
Die US-Punkrockband Green Day occurs. The three musicians around singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong are scheduled to take part in the opening ceremony. It should be in the halftime show puerto-ricanische Rapper Bad Bunny appear.
The show is almost as famous as the football final itself, the whole thing is a huge media event. Bad Bunny will be the first artist to perform the entire halftime show of America’s most-watched television event in Spanish. Trump told the New York Post when asked about the artists: “I’m against her. I think she’s a terrible choice. The only thing she does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Conservative politicians and pro-Trump groups had already criticized Bad Bunny’s election months ago and called for an “all-American” alternative. At the time, Bad Bunny criticized deportations and raids in the USA and announced that he would not play any concerts in the USA for the time being as part of his world tour due to concerns about ICE operations.
According to the newspaper, there is another reason why he will be staying away from the largest live sports event in the world this time. “It’s just too far away,” he said. In 2025, Trump came to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. (dpa)
