U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his views on the musical lineup for Super Bowl 2026 during a recent interview in the Oval Office. Bad Bunny is set to headline the halftime show, while Green Day will perform at the opening ceremony at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on February 8 — both of which Trump has strong opinions about.
“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Trump stated, according to a report from the New York Post.
Green Day has criticized the Trump administration for nearly a decade, dating back to the American Music Awards in 2016, when they led a chant of “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist U.S.A.”
Most recently, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong openly expressed his disdain during the band’s concert in Los Angeles on January 17, where he altered lyrics in protest song “American Idiot” to denounce “the MAGA agenda.” With “Holiday,” he pledged support “to our brothers and sisters in Minnesota” amid Trump’s aggressive immigration policies and the chaos unleashed by ongoing ICE raids across Minneapolis this month; Armstrong told the crowd at Kia Forum, “This song is anti-fascist. This song is anti-war.”
Green Day is set to kick off Super Bowl LX with a pre-game performance of “their most iconic rock anthems,” as announced by the NFL last weekend. The opening ceremony will celebrate MVPs and 60 years of Super Bowl history.
In a trailer for his Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show released last week, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny teased that when he takes the field, “the world will dance.” “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” Bad Bunny stated when his headliner status was announced. “It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown … this is for my people, my culture and our history. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.”
Meanwhile, Trump, who attended last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, announced he would be skipping the 2026 NFL championship game altogether — although he claims it’s not due to the performers booked; “it’s just too far away.”
He mentioned there are “great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me.”
“I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter,” said Trump, presumably referring to the distance from the White House to the West Coast.
Though Trump was apparently asked only about Bad Bunny and Green Day, Super Bowl Sunday’s traditional pre-game schedule also includes Charlie Puth performing the national anthem, Brandi Carlile singing “America the Beautiful,” and Coco Jones performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
