Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show ignites Trump's fury, divides viewers

The Super Bowl LX halftime amusement featuring Latin trap creator Bad Bunny was the taxable of immense disapproval from Americans connected Sunday night. 

President Donald Trump called it "one of the worst ever."

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"The Super Bowl Halftime Show is perfectly terrible, 1 of the worst, EVER! It makes nary sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t correspond our standards of Success, Creativity, oregon Excellence. Nobody understands a connection this feline is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, particularly for young children that are watching from passim the U.S.A., and each implicit the World," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. 

"This ‘Show’ is conscionable a ‘slap successful the face’ to our Country, which is mounting caller standards and records each azygous time — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s successful History! There is thing inspirational astir this messiness of a Halftime Show and watch, it volition get large reviews from the Fake News Media, due to the fact that they haven’t got a hint of what is going connected successful the REAL WORLD — And, by the way, the NFL should instantly regenerate its ridiculous caller Kickoff Rule. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Prominent blimpish influencers were among the show's harshest critics, and adjacent Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights astatine the U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon chimed in. 

One of the biggest criticisms of the amusement was that it was astir wholly successful Spanish. 

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 shot crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, successful Santa Clara, California. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Other users adjacent tied the amusement to the nation's ongoing statement astir amerciable migration and deportations astatine the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. 

However, immoderate fans and sports stars praised the show, including erstwhile NFL prima JJ Watt and New York Knicks constituent defender Jalen Brunson.

The amusement concluded with a connection connected the Levi Stadium video committee that read, "The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love," which immoderate critics interpreted arsenic a governmental message.

The amusement was expected to beryllium the archetypal Super Bowl halftime amusement to beryllium sung wholly successful Spanish. However, popular creator Lady Gaga showed up to sing the Bruno Mars opus "Die With a Smile." 

Bad Bunny wore a mock shot jersey that work "Ocasio 64." Ocasio being his past night. Some suggested the fig referred to the decease toll from Hurricane Maria that the Puerto Rican authorities archetypal claimed. The fig was aboriginal revised to astir 3,000.

Many fans opted to skip this year's Super Bowl halftime amusement to ticker Turning Point USA's "All-American" halftime show, headlined by Kid Rock, including Pro Football Hall of Famers Eric Dickerson and Brett Favre, and erstwhile ESPN big Sage Steele.

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 shot crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks astatine Levi’s Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, connected Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said the president would beryllium watching the "All-American" halftime show.

"I deliberation the president would overmuch similar a Kid Rock show implicit Bad Bunny. I indispensable accidental that," Leavitt told reporters astatine Thursday's White House property briefing.

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 shot crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, successful Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell defended having Bad Bunny arsenic the performer earlier this week. 

"Listen, Bad Bunny is, and I deliberation that was demonstrated past night, 1 of the large artists successful the satellite and that’s 1 of the reasons we chose him," Goodell said. "But the different crushed is helium understood the level helium was connected and this level is utilized to unite radical and to beryllium capable to bring radical unneurotic with their creativity, with their talents and to beryllium capable to usage this infinitesimal to bash that and I deliberation artists successful the past person done that.

"I deliberation Bad Bunny understands that and I deliberation he’ll person a large performance."

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