The NFL has sparked fresh controversy by selecting the rock band Green Day to perform at the Super Bowl LX opening ceremony on February 8th. The band will perform and usher generations of Super Bowl MVPs onto the field.

This announcement comes months after the league named Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the halftime show headliner, a decision that already drew significant backlash from President Trump and his supporters.

Trump has criticized the choice of Bunny as “absolutely ridiculous” and highlighted the artist’s anti-American, pro-illegal immigration stance. The rapper is a three-time Grammy winner known for his global popularity and Spanish-language hits.

Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, criticized law enforcement efforts to clean up the streets of criminals at his concerts.

“There was the issue of — like, (expletive) ICE could be outside my concert,” he said in an interview with Variety. “It was something we were very concerned about.”

Now, Goodell and the league have decided to bring in a bunch of aging has-been punk rockers. Why? Other than to agitate the President.

Green Day Super Bowl Trump Controversy: NFL Doubles Down with Anti-Trump Acts

Green Day’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, has a long history of vocal criticism toward the President, including calling his administration “fascist.

Because that’s an original thought in the entertainment world. But then he has to play to fans who don’t really seek out music with complex lyrics, or even words beyond one syllable.

And some people are outraged, for sure. It’s a blatant thumb in the eye of the President and his supporters to have Green Day, in between hits of Centrum Silver, performing for football fans.

“Green Day opening up for Super Bowl 60 is enough for me to boycott the game,” one fan wrote on X.

“So I just saw that they’re gonna have Green Day as the opening Super Bowl act and then they have Bad Bunny at halftime,” another responded. “Both anti-American acts, the NFL really hates their fan based don’t they?”

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This past spring, mascara-obsessed punk rockers Green Day altered their lyrics during a performance at Coachella to slam President Trump and his supporters, then set a palm tree on fire that prompted officials to disperse the crowd in that area.

The band performed their song “American Idiot,” originally an anthem meant to insult former President George W. Bush, and tweaked the words to take a shot at Trump.

“I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” was oh-so-subtly switched to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.”

Oooh. So edgy, little guy.

In an ironic twist, the band that talked down to over half of America by calling them “idiots” then launched fireworks from their set. In the desert. On a day when temperatures exceeded 100 degrees. In a location just a couple of hours outside wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles.

One of those fireworks went off course, setting a palm tree on fire.

That wasn’t the first time the band, which peaked in the ’90s, had made the MAGA reference, doing so at a performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” as they helped ring in 2024.

You know, the year MAGA had a massive resurgence and sent Trump back to the White House?

There’s almost no doubt the elderly band will take a shot at the President somewhere in their performance. The NFL knows this, and they seem perfectly content with it.

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