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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, 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 performer for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. (Tom Williams and John Nación/Getty Images)
“And we have Bad Bunny, or Bad Rabbit, at halftime. I’ll be watching the (Turning Point USA) halftime show. It’s unfortunate that we’ve gotten to this point.”
Tuberville’s apparent protest comes days after President Donald Trump announced he will not attend the big game.
“It’s too far away,” Trump said of the game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. “I would, I have done it [gotten] big hands [at] the Super Bowl. “They like me.”
Bad Bunny’s nod to do the halftime show has been 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/Image Images)
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“I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax of his election last fall. “I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to do entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Bad Bunny said last fall that he decided to do his residency program in his native Puerto Rico and did not reserve any dates in the United States for his tour for fear that ICE agents would detain his fans.
Green Day will play before kickoff; frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has 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 southern agenda” from their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” in more recent live performances, according to The Independent.
“I’m against them,” Trump told the New York Post of the artists. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
Mike Dirnt, 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 the Seattle Seahawks on February 8.
