From UFC matches to the US Open, President Donald Trump has had field seats at a few of the most high-profile sporting events in the nation throughout his second time period. But the president received’t be attending soccer’s largest evening: the Super Bowl.
“It’s just too far away. I would. I’ve gotten great hands for the Super Bowl, they like me,” Trump stated in an interview with the New York Post on Friday. “I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.”
Super Bowl LX will likely be held February 8 at Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Four groups are competing Sunday to earn their place in the recreation. The Seattle Seahawks face the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC Championship, and the New England Patriots face the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship.
While Trump blamed his potential absence on the lengthy flight, it’s no secret he’s not thrilled about this 12 months’s halftime performers, Bad Bunny and Green Day, each of whom backed Kamala Harris in 2024. (The president has ceaselessly traveled lengthy distances in his second time period, together with to the Middle East, Asia and Europe.)
“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Trump advised the Post.
After the artists have been introduced in October, Trump told NewsMax he’s “never heard of” Bad Bunny, who has almost 84 million monthly listeners on Spotify, calling the selection “ridiculous.”
Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican singer and rapper, didn’t initially embody US stops in his 2025-2026 tour due to concern that US Immigration Customs and Enforcement would goal concertgoers.
“There was the issue that … ICE could be outside (my concert venue). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” Bad Bunny stated in an interview with i-D magazine final 12 months.
Green Day’s lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, has additionally known as out Trump’s administration as a “fascist government,” telling his viewers at a live performance, “It’s up to us to fight back.”
Trump has traveled alongside the East Coast throughout his second time period to attend quite a few sporting occasions, together with UFC 314 in Miami, the Ryder Cup golf match in New York, the Army-Navy soccer recreation in Maryland, a New York Yankees recreation, and NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia.
Trump obtained a mixed reaction at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City for the US Open males’s finals, and equally at Yankees Stadium, with some cheering and others booing.
Another issue for Trump skipping the Super Bowl could also be that he doesn’t have any properties in the Bay Area. When touring the nation, Trump not often stays at inns that aren’t affiliated along with his personal properties.
NCS has reached out to the White House to see whether or not Trump has plans for a conventional presidential Super Bowl interview, given his criticisms of former President Joe Biden opting out of 1 in 2024.