Expectations met, President Donald Trump and conservatives sounded off on the “disgusting” Super Bowl halftime show, deemed a “slap in the face” to the nation.
In the months leading up to Sunday’s performance at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the headliner hype swirling around rapper Bad Bunny was heavily focused on how controversial the show would turn out. With the dust settled, the president joined in the cavalcade of criticism over what he described as “an affront to the Greatness of America.”
Taking to Truth Social in the wake of the performance that included guests Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, along with suggestive dancers and myriad foreign flags waved to assert “together we are America,” Trump asserted, “The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!”
“It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,” he went on before calling out the almost entirely Spanish-language performance and grinding extras. “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.”
“This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History!” added Trump. “There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime Show and watch, it will get great reviews from the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD — And, by the way, the NFL should immediately replace its ridiculous new Kickoff Rule. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Writing for Fox News, the Media Research Center’s Jorge Bonilla reminded how NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had assured the halftime act would “unite the world ‘in a really creative and fun way,'” instead of being predictably divisive. “It turns out that he was right. Most of the country, with the exception of some Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, was united in its revulsion over a show that narrowly tailored to a niche audience despite being billed as inclusive and respectful to America.”
Despite later walking back his comment, the rapper followed through with his “Saturday Night Live” barb at early detractors that they had “four months to learn” Spanish after delivering a message in the language that touted Latinos, “Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.”
Bonilla contended that the decision ultimately hindered transmission of a “mostly positive message” on stage as the rapper expressed, “My name is Benito Martinez Ocasio. And if I’m here today at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never, never stopped believing in myself. You should also believe in yourself. You’re worth more than you think. Believe me.”
Of course, just like the inclusion of Green Day had brought a message condemning federal immigration enforcement to the Super Bowl festivities, Goodell’s assurances of a non-political halftime dissolved as Martin, Ocasio’s fellow Puerto Rican, joined the act to promote the territory’s separation from the United States, “an option that only 12% of the island’s voters chose in 2024,” noted Bonilla.
“The records shows that Bad Bunny also endorsed the pro-independence, Chávez- and Castro-sympathizing candidate for governor of Puerto Rico,” he added after detailing the lyrics of the song “Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii” which suggests the Pacific island’s addition to the Union meant an end to culture and the disappearance of neighborhoods and natural beauty, without a shred of self-awareness about how the lament contradicts the open border message being shoveled down American throats by the left.
“The halftime show was carefully constructed to mainstream two similarly toxic ideas to viewers in the United States: first, the idea of Puerto Rico as a separate nation from the United States,” wrote Bonilla. “Second, the idea of Latino identity as a nation within a nation, a permanent immigrant status separate from the American mainstream.”
While he dreaded the potential follow-up if the NFL didn’t catch a hint from the millions of viewers that tuned out, instead choosing to watch inspiring messages delivered at Turning Point USA’s “The All-American Halftime Show,” others continued sounding off on the spectacle broadcast around the world.
“No one thought the Bad Bunny performance was any good,” argued Outkick founder Clay Travis, among others. “Left wingers will claim they did because they feel obligated to say so. But even they don’t believe it. The NFL’s halftime goal is to produce something that everyone can appreciate and enjoy. They failed.”
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No one thought the Bad Bunny performance was any good. Left wingers will claim they did because they feel obligated to say so. But even they don’t believe it. The NFL’s halftime goal is to produce something that everyone can appreciate and enjoy. They failed.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 9, 2026
Having the halftime show for your biggest game of the year in a language almost none of your lifelong fans can understand, while waving the flags of countries that none them are from, is the biggest fuck you that I’ve ever seen a corporation give to its own consumers
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 9, 2026
If only there were English subtitles during the halftime show of AMERICA’s greatest sporting event….
— Sage Steele (@sagesteele) February 9, 2026
Hey, just so you know, if, as a Christian, you find yourself more inclined to celebrate degeneracy because it’s sung in Spanish than to celebrate the gospel being preached because it’s done at a conservative halftime show, it’s *you* who has made an idol of the culture war
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) February 9, 2026
This feels like the beginning of an alt-halftime show trend.
— Steve Dodson (@rhp997) February 9, 2026
Bad bunny sucked but you knew that already I peaked in during @TPUSA show which was really good. Bad Bunny plays to a nation the left wants but most of the nation doesn’t. Shame on @nflcommish for taking this great game into AOC territory.
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) February 9, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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