The NFL’s decision to feature Latin artist Bad Bunny at halftime has already sparked controversy in some conservative circles, with critics arguing that his predominantly Spanish-language music and stances on issues such as immigration make him an unconventional pick for the game’s massive audience.

His 2025 song “Nuevayol” features an imitated Trump voice saying, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”

Green Day, which formed in the East Bay Area in the 1980s, is set to perform during the game’s opening ceremony. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has long denounced the administration and has altered the lyrics of the band’s 2004 Grammy-nominated song “American Idiot” during live performances, changing the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”

In July, Armstrong led a Download Festival crowd in a chant calling Trump a “fat bastard.”

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    He knows he’d get unrelentingly booed for the world to see. He couldn’t even handle a single autoworker jeering at him the other day.

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        if you take into account the NFL itself, how much money they’re making/spending, the cost for a commerical during the show, the cost to watch it on tv, the price of tickets and how capitalisticly crazy the whole thing is…

        I think green day is probably the most based part of the whole equation :)

        I’d still rather see another Kendrick halktime show though. Or maybe a RATM show…they could get together for one more show right?

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        There’s lots of big artists with big money out there.

        These two are surprisingly outspoken against the US government.

        Idk how political Bad Bunny gets on stage, but he cancelled a bunch of shows because of ICE, and said as much. Green Day has whole albums dedicated to calling out politicians.

        They’re gonna make buckets of money either way, this way puts them in the line of fire politically in a way they didn’t need to do. That’s at least a little based.

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    Trump has no shame whatsoever. There’s no way he’d let some musical acts that hate him chase him away from a big event. His health must be way worse than they’re letting on, if he isn’t already dead.

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        Yup. He’s likely not to get lots of adulation from conservatives that clap like seals whenever he mumbles out stupid shit like happens at his stupid road shows.

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          There’s a reason he doesn’t do them anymore. Either he’s too sick, or there’s just not enough interest, even from his most bigly followers.

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            I think you are right. It’s probably a bit of both.

            I know he just ate that up like it was manna, since he’s a narcissist.

            I think everything would have been so much better for everybody if he could have just kept his circus roadshow as a regular thing, stayed away from any office, and he could have had all the adulation he wanted without any of the stress of even pretending to work a real job.

            He could even expand the thing with some warm-up acts to really give the fans a thrill - get some snake handlers in there to go on about the miracles of Jesus. I’m sure some bible bangers would love to get in on that grift, if they weren’t already - I don’t really know since I wouldn’t get anywhere near one of his stupid rallies. I’m picturing some real Righteous Gemstones type of stuff, LOL…

            Oh, I guess people selling nostrums like ivermectin and the wonders of HCQ…as long as Taco is the closing act and gets a cut of the opening acts, I’m sure there’d be enough to keep everyone fat, dumb and happy.

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    He doesn’t want to be present when Green Day has the crowd chanting Fuck Donald Trump, Fuck ICE, and Fuck Government?

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      It’s also in Green Day’s home town (a few small cities away) the Bay Area. He will get no love here.