Donald Trump says he will not be attending this 12 months’s Super Bowl and made it clear Bad Bunny’s halftime efficiency will not win him over both.
In an unique interview with The New York Post from the Oval Office, Trump revealed he plans to skip the NFL championship sport on February 8 in San Francisco and criticized the choice of Bad Bunny and, now, Green Day, as musical acts for the extremely anticipated halftime present.
“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” mentioned Trump.
Both artists have publicly spoken out in opposition to Trump previously, one thing the previous president appeared to reference whereas sharing his disapproval. Despite the robust phrases, Trump insisted the performers themselves aren’t the principle motive he is sitting this one out.
“It’s just too far away. I would. I’ve [gotten] great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me,” he defined. “I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.”
Bad Bunny has been brazenly essential of Trump over time. In his music “Nuevayol” off his newest studio album I ought to have taken extra images, Benito featured a voice mimicking Trump delivering an apology to immigrants.
Green Day, a notoriously political band. has additionally taken public stances that conflict with Trump’s views. Just final week, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong voiced help for anti-deportation protests in Minnesota.
“I’m not a part of a redneck agenda. I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” he mentioned to switch the lyrics in “American Idiot.”
Trump’s feedback come because the upcoming Super Bowl has already turn out to be entangled in political controversy past the halftime present.
Following the announcement that Bad Bunny would headline, Trump’s administration issued warnings that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers can be current at Super Bowl LX. Corey Lewandowski, an adviser on the Department of Homeland Security, mentioned on The Benny Show podcast that there can be no exceptions for undocumented immigrants attending the occasion.
“There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski mentioned.
He went on to say federal authorities would “find” and “apprehend” undocumented people and place them into detention services, describing the strategy as a pointy shift from earlier administrations.
Bad Bunny has beforehand expressed concern about immigration enforcement within the U.S., even stating at one level that he did not plan to tour stateside to advertise his album I ought to have taken extra images as a result of it felt “unnecessary.” He later clarified that his workforce was anxious about doable immigration raids concentrating on followers at his reveals.