Trump Watched Bad Bunny Halftime Show at His Own Super Bowl Party
By: Malcolm Ferguson (The New Republic)
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President Trump's Super Bowl party aired Bad Bunny's halftime show for all to enjoy.
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It appears that President Trump didn't even bother to tune into Turning Point USA's alternative, anti-immigrant "All-American Halftime Show."
Footage taken from inside Trump's Super Bowl party at his Mar-a-Lago golf club showed the president and his invited guests watching Bad Bunny's halftime show rather than TPUSA's night of Jesus Christ, Kid Rock, and country music.
Footage from inside Trump's golf club Super Bowl party reveals the Bad Bunny half time show played on the big screens.
What a bunch of hypocrites. pic.twitter.com/hF5scOGYek
— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) February 9, 2026
"This just proves it's all performative," one X user wrote, calling out Trump's hypocrisy in not even putting on TPUSA's halftime show. "They stoke the outrage but couldn't care less as long as the peasants are fighting."
Trump later confirmed that he watched Bad Bunny instead of Kid Rock, in a classic long, angry Truth Social post Sunday evening.
"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. 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," he wrote, apparently fuming. "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."
But based on Trump's own actions, it's the MAGA sycophants who watched the TPUSA halftime show—when their own president didn't bother—who don't know what's going on in the "real world." A Grammy-winning artist, perhaps the most popular in the Western hemisphere, put on a sprawling, jubilant show and spoke in Spanish almost the entire time. Kid Rock just did some weird lip syncing.
Editor's Pick:Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA WeaknessMost Recent PostHafiz Rashid/February 9, 2026/9:14 a.m. ET
MAGA Devolves Into Civil War Over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show
Conservatives can't decide if they should support Bad Bunny or not—so they're tearing into each other instead.
JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty ImagesPuerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on February 8.
MAGA is fighting with itself over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show.
President Trump crashed out almost immediately after, complaining about Bad Bunny's singing in Spanish and calling it a "'slap in the face' to our Country" in an angry Truth Social post. This is despite the fact that the message on the football at the end of the Puerto Rican artist's show was "Together we are America."
But others on the right praised the message. Conservative influencer Emily Austin said, "Bad Bunny had the biggest stage in the world and could've made it political. He didn't. He chose unity & love. You can celebrate different backgrounds and still love this country."
A former press aide to Trump, Harrison Fields, criticized conservatives who called Bad Bunny anti-American, saying, "Last time I checked, my Puerto Rico-born grandmother was a full American citizen—and she voted for Trump." Vivianca Rodriguez, who worked on the Trump campaign, said that Trump supporters who complained were "alienating [the] Puerto Rican conservative base." Even Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, praised the "branding" of Bad Bunny's show.
The right-wing discourse over the show also divided brothers Jake and Logan Paul. Jake, who called Bad Bunny a "fake American citizen," was admonished by Logan, who said, "I love my brother but I don't agree with this."
"Puerto Ricans are Americans & I'm happy they were given the opportunity to showcase the talent that comes from the island," Logan posted on X.
The MAGA right is probably going to fight over this instead of America's actual issues. Some, like the president, can't accept the fact that one of the world's most popular stars speaks Spanish and is actually an American citizen born in a U.S. territory. Others recognize that Spanish speakers and Latinos vote too, and that most of the country didn't switch to Turning Point USA's alternative halftime show. The question is which side will win the argument.
Editor's Pick:Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA WeaknessMost Recent PostEllie Quinlan Houghtaling/February 6, 2026/4:26 p.m. ET
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I wonder if there is video of Trump doing his stupid dance to Bad Bunny's music.
That would be priceless
Imagine that. All that vitriol spewed about the half-time show and he couldn't be bothered to watch the alternative. He probably thinks Kid Rock sucks, too
Kid Rock probably didn't donate enough.
kid suck was busted lip-syncing his hit badly at eriKa KirK's alt-halftime debacle that was carried on youtube, after X dumped it prior to the show ...
I heard he showed up drunk.
he is being brutalized online, so naturally I had to join in. people are calling him kid rock-bottom ...
he sings 1 song and badly lip syncs another. of course most of the maga media is claiming how tpusa's alt-halftime totally dominated the NFL show by all means to measure. what a useless fucking has been kid suck is. here's hoping for a tearful eriKa KirK media reaction for the sole purpose of further enriching herself by exploiting her dead scumbag husband, again ...
She's going to have something to say. But if she were a wise woman which I highly suspect she is not, she will just shut up and stay in the house for a week
that must pose a conundrum for her. I thought dead hubby wanted her gender to all stay home on their backs squirting out little xtian nationalists to do battle with the godless libs and minorities in the end times ...
... drunk, stupid, who can tell with them. maybe she'll ask for another lip quivering CBS interview ...
"fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go thru life, Son"
She's going to need a new baby daddy, then
What movie was that. It rings a bell.
Animal House?
she's probably trying on every maga dick hanging on the rack right now ...
With Trump singing along in perfect Spanish.
The only Spanish Trump knows is "Muy poquito" since he's heard it so often when visiting Tijuana brothels...
"Much ado about nothing"
I'm not interested in the President's opinion of the half-time show.
I think the Super Bowl half-time shows over the past few decades have been a farce.
IMO Bad Bunny is the epitome of nothing.
Bad Bunny is the epitome of cool.
You would prefer a Leni Riefenstahl production?
Lol.
You would prefer a Leni Riefenstahl production?
Let me think about that one: "The Bad Bunny half-time show" vs "Triumph of the Will."
I'm going with the half-time show. Only because of the dancers:
Why do "performers" like Bad Bunny need dancers, special lights, fireworks etc?
Did like Journey.
P.S for the first time ever didn't watch a single football game this season. Didn't even watch the superbowl.
I can understand that. The sport isn't quite as interesting as it once was.
I stopped watching NFL games long ago. anyone can watch the highlights of any game on youtube in 15 minutes, as opposed to wasting 3+ hours of sitting thru a commercial loaded game of hurry up and wait bullshit. fuck that ...
I guess one should know their enemy. That's what Tzu said.
The right has already lost over three quarters of the Latino voters they had managed to bamboozle in the last election; things are only going to get worse. They don't actually fear the undocumented immigrants are voting, they know they don't on any scale that could actually change an election. What they are now desperately afraid of are the 55+ million legal Latino immigrants who are sick and tire of this racist bullshit. That's no doubt why conservatives are already, with ZERO actual evidence of any widespread voter fraud, claiming there is rampant fraud in Democrat States. They are pre-billing the election as fraudulent because they know they are going to get absolutely murdered in the midterms. So they have to prep the waters of their gullible moron base and tell them they didn't really lose, the other guys cheated! Yeah! That must be it! With exactly ZERO fucking evidence these dumb shits gobble up the anal leakage telling them up is down, wet is dry and Democrats are evil, because that is rightwing media.
They've done it for fckn decade now, and it is pathetic. Wanting to believe BullShit over reality has just gotten ridiculous. What they want to be true, and what is, are obviously on planes that will never intersect, with one eventually having to crash, and it can't happen soon enough, but, it is coming. I see a Blue Wave Tsunami already swelling, and it is obvious and very telling.
Trump and a bunch of corrupt sycophants' (GOP) will do what ever they can to actually STEAL the election that 47 has claimed happens every time, of course, unless he or his lackeys' win, cause that is all he noses, and due to it, he BLOWS, as he still attempts to petal his shit, as smelling of rose, while with his Tulips, Bubba does he , BLOWS
Trump tries to steal the midterms and many will see him out of office. Screw the criminal
Not white enough for me. Awesome
tell me you're racist, Loony Laura, without telling me you're a racist
She should move.
awwww, trying to fade some heat for her cult leader. what a good little maga nazi she is ...
She's Jewish
It's embarrassing. Same with Stephen Miller.
oh no, don't tell maga. I guess they take abrahamic religions about as seriously as I do then ...
He's Jewish? That chinless wonder?
he's perpetually pissed off because he missed out on the epstein era ...
Yes.
You have that backwards.
The song that Bad Bunny performed was toned down considerably. BTW it is about forced oral sex. Even toned down it was filthy. If I had been a Hispanic man watching with my family, I would have been insulted & offended.
We also had to endure Bad Bunny grab himself nearly every minute. I suppose the blame must go to Roger Goodell who put Jay-Z in charge of the half time shows. It is quite clear what the script is for such shows. Goodell has politicized the NFL.
Two final thoughts. I noticed that nobody answered my question. I'll answer it. The reason that certain performers need lights and fireworks and dancers or need to be flung at the crowd or shot out of a cannon is that they LACK TALENT. Bad Bunny mumbled his was through that filth laden song and most people still don't know who the hell he is.
As for the game itself it was extremely boring. The Patriots offensive line couldn't even hold off a 4-man rush which left Drake Maye constantly throwing into a massive amount of coverage throughout the day.
The NFL needs a new commissioner.
you could have turned the channel. nobody forced you to watch him grab himself. And I doubt you understand Spanish so how do you know it was about forced oral sex? Did Jesse Waters tell you that? Does he speak Spanish?
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“…they LACK TALENT.”
….while some lack an original thought in simply, spuriously parroting the same tired narrative spewed by their antagonist-in-chief. Predictably pernicious.
that was fast. Vic bitches and charger charges in
The kid rock concert was the most live streamed performance in you tube history. Quite a massive win for TPUSA
maga influencers were online instructing maga scum how to boost the debacles ratings by running it on all their devices.
kid suck is just another maga has been ...
He had 2 songs I liked both of them with Sheryl Crow. She almost made him human
that must have been during her coked up alcoholic phase ...
Her coked up alcoholic days were when she was with Clapton.
at least chachi wasn't there
But it was live streamed.... Sean said so....
Biggest rip off evah on You Tube, lol.
You think people got ripped off because it was pre taped? How much did people pay to watch it?
What a bizarre thing to believe. Or care about.
The emotional investment some people have in this is bizarre.
LOL! I don't believe anything Sean says
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Oh come on Sean, you "mis-spoke", it wasn't Live Streamed simultaneously with the Super Bowl as many were led to believe.
It wasn't live streamed as you claimed.
Just admit it.
Bad Bunny was entertaining enough but there is something to be said about understanding the lyrics. Then again based on what I hear his lyrics are like maybe it is better that I did not understand him.
On more important note other than a few exceptions the quality of the commercials is coming down fast.
there is something to be said about understanding the lyrics
Why? Have you seriously never heard a song in English that you didn’t understand the lyrics? Some of the most iconic songs written in plain English have lyrics that are either indecipherable or too abstract or esoteric to be truly understood in the manner that they were written. Why can’t you just celebrate another iconic performance with mysterious lyrics? Who fucking cares? Even if his lyrics were transcribed in English you likely would not understand them in the manner that an AMERICAN CITIZEN from Puerto Rico would.