{"id":148292,"date":"2026-01-24T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:16:09","slug":"trump-says-he-wont-attend-this-years-super-bowl-in-california-after-going-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148292\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he won’t attend this year’s Super Bowl in California after going in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he plans to skip next month’s Super Bowl<\/a>, slamming the halftime performers and griping that the California game is too far away.<\/p>\n

Trump, who attended last year\u2019s game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans, told the New York Post:<\/a> “It\u2019s just too far away.\u00a0I would, I\u2019ve [gotten] great hands [at] the Super\u00a0Bowl. They like me.”<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Super Bowl will be held at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California<\/a>, near San Jose.<\/p>\n

He added, “I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.”<\/p>\n

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The president slammed the NFL choosing Bad Bunny and Green Day to perform. (Monica Schipper\/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Coachella)<\/p>\n

The president has also been openly critical of headline performer <\/a>Bad Bunny since he was chosen last year to perform at the Halftime Show.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax of the choice last fall. “I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it. It\u2019s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it\u2019s absolutely ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

Rock band Green Day was also selected in the last week to play before the kickoff.<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny and Green Day\u2019s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong are both liberal performers who have been vocal about their dislike of Trump in the past.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny said last fall that he decided to do his residency show in his native Puerto Rico<\/a> and didn’t book any U.S. dates on his tour over fears his fans would be detained by ICE agents.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump walks onto the field prior to the Super Bowl last year. (Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“But there was the issue of, like, f—ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it\u2019s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” the Latin pop star, who has a large Latino following, told i-D.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old also featured a person doing a Trump impression in his song “Nuevayol,” saying, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”<\/p>\n

Armstrong has likened Trump to Hitler in the past and the band frequently changes the line “I\u2019m not part of a redneck agenda” from their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I\u2019m not part of the MAGA agenda” in more recent live performances, according to The Independent.<\/p>\n

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President Trump watching 2025’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.\u00a0 (Roberto Schmidt\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m anti-them,” Trump told the Post of the performers. “I think it\u2019s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”<\/p>\n

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Kendrick Lamar headlined last year\u2019s Halftime Show and SZA, Jon Batiste, Lauren Daigle, Trombone Shorty, and Ledisi also performed.<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, Feb. 8 with the Seattle Seahawks-Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots-Denver Broncos championship games Sunday deciding who will play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Saturday said he plans to skip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,536,967,752,13,11730],"class_list":{"0":"post-148292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-super-bowl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}