Trump tells New York Post he will skip Super Bowl
NFL stands by Bad Bunny amid rightwing backlash
Donald Trump said he will not attend next month’s Super Bowl in northern California, citing the distance to the game, amid an ongoing culture-war backlash over the NFL’s choice of half-time and pre-game performers.
Trump told the New York Post he plans to skip the 8 February championship game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara because the trip is “just too far away”, adding that he would have considered attending if it were a shorter flight. The decision means Trump will not repeat his appearance at last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, where he became the first sitting US president to attend the NFL’s showcase event.
The president has made high-profile appearances at sporting events a regular feature of his second term, including last year’s Daytona 500, the recent college football national championship and September’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage, New York. Many of those events were held near Florida or the US east coast, within short travel distance of the White House or Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound.
