Though he attended the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, the president said he will skip Super Bowl LX because San Francisco is “too far away.”

Donald Trump will skip the Super Bowl because he’s afraid he’ll get booed, Seth Meyers says on Late Night

Though he attended the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, the president said he will skip Super Bowl LX because San Francisco is "too far away."

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- Seth Meyers is roasting Trump over skipping Super Bowl LX in San Francisco on Sunday because the president is "worried about getting booed."

- Trump stated in January that he would be skipping the big game this year because Levi's Stadium is "just too far away," though he may have gone if the game "was a little bit shorter."

- Meyers cited Trump being loudly booed at a Lions-Commanders game in November as evidence of the president's potential fear.

Donald Trump says he would have planned on attending Super Bowl LX if it weren't so far from Washington, D.C., and if the game weren't so long. But Seth Meyers thinks he has another reason for playing hooky.

"Given Trump's love of football and attention, you might have expected him to show up to the Super Bowl on Sunday, especially since he went to last year's Super Bowl," Meyers said during his opening monologue on Wednesday's episode of *Late Night with Seth Meyers*.

Indeed, the president confirmed that he would sit out the big game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots because the NFL's choice of venue, San Francisco's Levi's Stadium, is "just too far away." Though he acknowledged that he's received "great hands [at] the Super Bowl. They like me," he explained that he "would go if, you know, it was a little bit shorter."

After Meyers repeated Trump's reasoning to his studio audience, the late-night host questioned, "It's too far away? You know you have your own plane, right? Like, we weren't expecting you to pile into a station wagon with Eric, Don Jr., and Melania."**

"Trump's excuse doesn't track," Meyers continued. "This is the same guy who has done multiple trips to the Middle East and Asia, but San Francisco is too far away? Or is it because they won't give you a dumb gift for making the trip? Because we know you love a dumb gift."

World leaders have gotten in the habit of bestowing odd welcome gifts on the president, from South Korea's replica of an ancient gold crown to Qatar's Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner. Meyers also ripped on Trump in December for accepting FIFA's newly inaugurated "peace prize," which Meyers lambasted as "fake."

But that still wasn't at the heart of Trump's game day avoidance, according to Meyers.

"I wonder if it's because there's another reason he might not want to attend a football game in the current political climate," he asked, before playing a clip of Trump being loudly booed by the crowd at a Lions-Commanders game at Maryland's Northwest Stadium in November.

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"Of course Trump is worried about getting booed," Meyers explained. "His approval ratings are at all-time lows, his party is getting shellacked everywhere."****

Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.

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Trump's approval ratings have declined since he took office last January. He stepped back into the presidency with a 47 percent overall approval rating, according to Gallop, but that number is now at 36.

Critics of the Trump administration cite moves like the increasingly aggressive deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct raids in cities like Minneapolis, the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and the seeming inability to stimulate the economy.

Trump still bragged Tuesday that his approval ratings are "the highest poll Numbers I have ever received."**

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