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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., went to the Super Bowl last year, but this year could be a bust for the SEC championship-winning football coach.
The former Auburn football coach didn’t explicitly say he wouldn’t watch the game, but he did say Bad Bunny’s halftime show was off-limits.
“Unfortunately, we have what I call the Woke Bowl, because we are becoming more and more woke,” Tuberville told Newsmax in a recent interview.
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Tommy Tuberville is not happy that Bad Bunny is the halftime entertainer at this year’s Super Bowl. (Tom Williams and John Nacion/Getty Images)
“And we have Bad Bunny, or Bad Rabbit, at halftime. I’ll watch the (Turning Point USA) halftime show. It’s just a shame that we’ve gotten to this point.”
Tuberville’s apparent protests come days after President Donald Trump announced he would not participate in the big game.
“It’s just too far,” Trump said of the game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. “I would, I [gotten] big hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me.”
Bad Bunny’s nod to do the halftime show was criticized, even by Trump.
Bad Bunny watches Game 3 of the second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on May 10, 2025. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)
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“I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax of his choice last fall. “I don’t know why they do this. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on a promoter that they hired to provide entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Bad Bunny said last fall that he had decided to do his residency at his native Puerto Rico and has not booked any US dates for his tour, fearing that his fans will be detained by ICE agents.
Green Day will perform before kick-off – frontman Billie Joe Armstrong also criticized the president. He has compared Trump to Hitler in the past, and the band frequently changes the line “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” from their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” at more recent concerts, according to The Independent.
“I’m anti-them,” Trump told the New York Post of the artists. “I think it’s a terrible choice. It just sows hatred. Terrible.”
Mike Dirnt, from left, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tré Cool of Green Day arrive at the FireAid benefit concert at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California on January 30, 2025. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
The game will feature the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks on February 8.
