President Trump Calls Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show ‘Disgusting’ After Claiming He Wouldn’t Watch

In October 2025, Trump, 79, expressed his disappointment over the selection of Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show.

“I’ve never heard of him,” he claimed during a phone interview with Newsmax at the time. “I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s, like, crazy.”

He added, “I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

In January, Trump revealed his plans to boycott the Super Bowl due to the inclusion of Bad Bunny and Green Day, who have also publicly criticized the president during his time in office.

“I’m anti-them,” Trump told the New York Post. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”

Trump also alleged that the Super Bowl’s location in California was “just too far away” for him.

One week before the big game, Bad Bunny made headlines for speaking out against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the 2026 Grammy Awards.

“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans,” he said during his acceptance speech for Best Música Urbana Album. “I want to say to people, I know it’s tough not to hate in these days, and I was thinking we get contaminados [contaminated].”

He continued, “The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So, please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don’t hate them. We love our people, we love our family and that’s the way to do it. With love. Don’t forget that, please.”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell later teased whether the Puerto Rican singer would get political at the Super Bowl.

“Bad Bunny, I think that was demonstrated last night, is one of the great artists in the world, and that’s one of the reasons we chose him,” Goodell, 66, told reporters during a Monday, February 2, press conference, referring to Bad Bunny’s three Grammy wins the day prior.

“But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on,” he added. “This platform is to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents, and to be able to use this moment to do that. I think artists in the past have done that. I think Bad Bunny understands that and I think he’ll have a great performance.”