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Many conservatives are worried about Bad Bunny’s presence at the Super Bowl, but they may have their focus on the wrong musical guest.
Green Day, who is scheduled to perform before the Super Bowl, played a pre-game party Friday night at Pier 29 in San Francisco, where he spoke out strongly against ICE agents.
“To all the ICE agents out there, wherever you are, quit your s—-y job. Quit the s—-y job you have,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said during the show.
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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs on stage during The FanDuel Party Powered by Spotify 2026 on February 6, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Anna Webber/Getty Images for Spotify)
“Because when this is over — and it will be over at some point — Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re going to drop you like a bad f—–g habit. Get on this side of the line.”
Armstrong also said a performance is “going out to Minneapolis” amid the protests and killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. He also changed the text of “Holiday” from “the representative from California has the floor” to “the representative from Epstein Island has the floor.”
Armstrong has previously been critical of the president. He has compared Trump to Hitler, and the band often changes the line “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” from their 2004 hit “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” in recent live performances.
Billie Joe Armstrong performs with Green Day at Geodis Park in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (Denny Simmons/The Tennessean/USA TODAY NETWORK)
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“I’m against them,” Trump said New York Post of the performers. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hate. Terrible.”
Bad Bunny, the shortstop, has also been criticized by Trump.
“I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax about the election last fall. “I don’t know why they do it. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to get entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Bad Bunny speaks onstage at the Super Bowl LX Pregame & Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Press Conference at Moscone Center West on February 5, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
Bad Bunny said last fall that he decided to do his residency show in his native Puerto Rico and did not book any US dates on his tour due to fears that his fans would be detained by ICE agents.
