Tommy Tuberville says Super Bowl is 'getting more and more woke' with Bad Bunny's halftime show

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., went to the Super Bowl past year, but this twelvemonth mightiness beryllium a no-go for the SEC championship-winning shot coach. 

The erstwhile Auburn shot manager did not explicitly accidental helium wouldn't beryllium watching the game, but helium did accidental that Bad Bunny's halftime amusement was off-limits. 

"Unfortunately, we’ve got, I telephone it the Woke Bowl, due to the fact that we’re getting much and much woke," Tuberville told Newsmax successful a caller interview. 

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Tommy Tuberville and Bad Bunny

Tommy Tuberville is not blessed that Bad Bunny is this year's Super Bowl halftime amusement performer. (Tom Williams and John Nacion/Getty Images)

"And we’ve got Bad Bunny, oregon Bad Rabbit, astatine halftime. I'll beryllium watching the (Turning Point USA) halftime show. It's conscionable unfortunate we've gotten to this point."

Tuberville's evident protestation comes days aft President Donald Trump announced that helium volition not beryllium astatine the large game.

"It’s conscionable excessively acold away," Trump said of the crippled astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara. "I would, I’ve [gotten] large hands [at] the Super Bowl. They similar me."

Bad Bunny's motion to bash the halftime amusement has been criticized, adjacent by Trump.

Bad Bunny astatine  the Knicks game

Bad Bunny watches Game 3 of the 2nd circular of the 2025 NBA Playoffs betwixt the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks astatine Madison Square Garden connected May 10, 2025. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)

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"I don’t cognize who helium is," Trump told Newsmax of the prime past fall. "I don’t cognize wherefore they’re doing it. It’s crazy. And past they blasted it connected immoderate promoter they hired to prime up entertainment. I deliberation it’s perfectly ridiculous."

Bad Bunny said past autumn helium decided to bash his residency amusement successful his autochthonal Puerto Rico and didn't publication immoderate U.S. dates connected his circuit implicit fears his fans would beryllium detained by ICE agents.

Green Day volition play earlier kickoff — frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has besides been captious of the president. He has likened Trump to Hitler successful the past, and the set often changes the enactment "I’m not portion of a redneck agenda" from their 2004 deed "American Idiot" to "I’m not portion of the MAGA agenda" successful much caller unrecorded performances, according to The Independent.

"I’m anti-them," Trump told the New York Post of the performers. "I deliberation it’s a unspeakable choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible."

Members of Green Day

Mike Dirnt, from left, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Tré Cool of Green Day get astatine the FireAid payment performance astatine Intuit Dome successful Inglewood, California, connected Jan. 30, 2025. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

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The crippled volition diagnostic the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks connected Feb. 8.

Fox News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report.

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