Why Won’t Trump Attend The Super Bowl This Year? It’s Just Too Far!

President Donald Trump, who became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl last year, has decided to skip this year’s game.

Speaking with The New York Post on Saturday, the president cited the distance to the game as the reason why he will miss Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

“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 also condemned the NFL’s entertainment lineup for the game: rock band Green Day for the opening ceremony and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny as the halftime headliner.

“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Trump said of the musicians.

Bad Bunny is a world-renowned rapper and singer who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. He has publicly blasted Trump’s increasing ICE raids, and his advocacy for Puerto Rico has been rebuked by MAGA supporters.

After the singer was announced as the Super Bowl’s headliner, many on the right complained about the three-time Grammy winner performing in Spanish. He responded to the outrage during his monologue on “Saturday Night Live.”

“I’m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it, even Fox News,” Bad Bunny said.

In an interview with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly in October, Trump addressed Bad Bunny’s upcoming Super Bowl performance.

“I don’t know why they are doing it. It’s like crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment,” Trump said. “I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

Jay-Z and his company, Roc Nation, are behind selecting Super Bowl halftime performers as part of a partnership with the NFL that began in 2019.

The members of Green Day, who’ve won four Grammy Awards and toured for more than 30 years, have long been outspoken critics of the Trump administration. Earlier this month, the band slammed Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda while performing at a Los Angeles concert.

“This song is anti-fascism. This song is anti-war,” lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong announced at the Jan. 17 show before the band played their hit tune “Holiday.” “We stand up for our brothers and sisters in Minnesota.”

The rockers also changed the lyrics of the song to take aim at Trump’s homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, who has been a driving force behind the Trump administration’s controversial immigration agenda.