Donald Trump Slams 2026 Super Bowl Performers Bad Bunny and Green Day: ‘I’m Anti-Them’

Donald Trump is “anti” Bad Bunny and Green Day, both of whom he deemed “terrible” selections for the 2026 Super Bowl stage.

The president, 79, spoke about the artists set to perform at the NFL game on Feb. 8 — Green Day at the start and Bad Bunny at halftime — in an interview with the New York Post.

Reacting to the Puerto Rican singer-rapper and punk rockers, both of whom are longtime critics of Trump and his administration, he told the outlet, “I’m anti-them.”

“I think it’s a terrible choice,” Trump added of the musicians. “All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”

Trump, who attended last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, told the Post he won’t be at the big game in San Francisco this year, but he clarified that his disdain for the performers is not the reason why he is skipping.

“It’s just too far away,” he said. “I would. I’ve [gotten] great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me.”

“I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter,” added the president.

Green Day, who the NFL announced earlier this month will kick off the upcoming Super Bowl, have been critics of Trump since his first term in office.

The “Basketcase” rockers have a long history of using their music to make political statements, and they have previously changed the lyrics of their hit song “American Idiot” to slam Trump’s “MAGA agenda.”

Green Day also sold shirts with the president’s mugshot on them to raise money for charity.

Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show headliner Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has also been openly critical of the president.

The singer made headlines last year, when he chose not to bring his record-setting Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour to the U.S. due to the Trump administration’s mass deportations and deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an ongoing immigration crackdown.

“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate — I’ve performed there many times. All of [the shows] have been successful. All of them have been magnificent,” the star told i-D of his tour decision last fall.

“But there was the issue of — like, f—ing ICE could be outside [my concert],” Bad Bunny added. “And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”

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After Bad Bunny was announced as a Super Bowl performer in September, he celebrated the news with an X post, writing, “I’ve been thinking about it these days, and after discussing it with my team, I think I’ll do just one date in the United States.” The singer also said in the post that the performance would be “for my people, my culture, and our history.”

Days later, Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem threatened that ICE agents would “be all over” Super Bowl LX. Trump, meanwhile, previously said that he had “never heard of” Bad Bunny.

“I don’t know who he is,” Trump said of the Puerto Rican artist while calling into Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Reports last fall. “I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

Super Bowl LX will take place on Sunday, Feb. 8.