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The Rams gained’t be the only no-shows at the Super Bowl. President Trump will likely be conspicuous in his absence from the greatest annual, single-day sporting event in the United States.

“It’s just too far away,” Trump told the New York Post. “I would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter.”

Or maybe not so far to his left?

Super Bowl LX will likely be performed Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, half of the San Francisco Bay Area that Trump has so often reviled.

The groups — the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks — hail from deeply entrenched blue states. Massachusetts and Washington have voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1988.

Trump also has expressed disgust over the musical performers at this 12 months’s sport: Bad Bunny and Green Day, both unabashed critics of the current administration. Bad Bunny will play the halftime show while Green Day will carry out forward of the kickoff.

“I’m anti-them,” Trump said. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”

Ahead of a tour last fall to promote his most latest album, Bad Bunny (whose real identify is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) announced he would skip the United States because he was afraid of ICE raids at his live shows. The Puerto Rican famous person — who has almost 84 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify — explained why he made an exception for the Super Bowl.

“What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” he said in a assertion. “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.”

Green Day, an American pop-punk band of nearly 40 years, has since Trump’s first time period swapped a line in the lyrics of the 2004 hit “American Idiot” from “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.”

Turning Point USA, the conservative non-profit based by the late Charlie Kirk, announced in October that it might stage its own counterprogramming to the Super Bowl and stream it on conservative shops. The “All American Halftime Show” is billed as “Celebrating Faith, Family, & Freedom.” As of Monday, musical artists had not been announced.

Trump grew to become the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl a 12 months in the past when he acquired a muted, blended response of cheers and boos in New Orleans. But this 12 months, the 5½-hour flight from Washington D.C. to the Bay Area apparently is too long for the president, who in January alone has flown to Switzerland, Detroit and Palm Beach.

Trump has long loved attending high-profile sporting occasions. He was current at the College Football Playoff title sport between Indiana and Miami a week in the past and in 2025 attended the Army-Navy school soccer sport, the U.S. Open and the Ryder Cup. In 2019, he attended Game 5 of the World Series in Washington, where he was resoundingly booed.

The NFL has resisted stress to change Bad Bunny with a performer more politically palatable to Trump.

“There’s a lot of people right now who don’t like Bad Bunny being in the Super Bowl halftime show,” NFL chief advertising officer Tim Ellis said at a convention in October. “Well, not everyone has to like everything we do. Bad Bunny is … awesome.”

Not everybody has to like the groups that earned Super Bowl berths and the states they call home, either. And not everybody has to approve of the venue. That contains the president, who made it clear that if he decides to watch, he’ll do so from a distance.