Topline<\/p>\n
Conservative campus activist organization Turning Point USA announced it would host an alternate halftime show during the Super Bowl, after Bad Bunny\u2019s selection as performer for the official halftime show riled conservatives.<\/p>\n
The conservative group has released few details about the upcoming performance timed to coincide with Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n
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In a social media announcement, TPUSA announced it would host \u201cThe All American Halftime Show\u201d on Feb. 8, 2026\u2014the same date as Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n
The announcement also teases \u201cPerformers and event details coming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
TPUSA was founded by assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on a Utah college campus in September and mourned at an arena-filling memorial service at the home stadium of the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n
An online form asks potential viewers which genres they would like to hear at the show, leading with the choice \u201cAnything in English\u201d\u2014a shot directly at Bad Bunny, who performs in Spanish.<\/p>\n
Other choices include \u201cAmericana,\u201d \u201cclassic rock,\u201d \u201ccountry,\u201d \u201chip hop,\u201d \u201cpop\u201d and \u201cworship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Key Background<\/p>\n
When Bad Bunny was announced as the headliner for the Super Bowl halftime show, the pick was swiftly met with backlash<\/a> from conservative influencers and content creators. Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is a frequent critic of President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policies, and has recently refused to play shows in the continental United States over concerns that his concerts would be targeted by immigration authorities. Corey Lewandowski, a Homeland Security adviser in the Trump administration, told right wing podcaster Benny Johnson days after the announcement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would \u201cdo enforcement everywhere,\u201d<\/a> including potentially at the Super Bowl. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later told the podcaster<\/a> ICE would be \u201call over\u201d the Super Bowl. Bad Bunny, who is a U.S. citizen born in Puerto Rico, has so far mocked the backlash<\/a>, telling the audience at Saturday Night Live\u2019s season premiere they had \u201cfour months to learn\u201d Spanish before the big game.<\/p>\n Crucial Quote<\/p>\n On Monday, Trump questioned the NFL for picking Bad Bunny as the headliner. \u201cI don\u2019t know who he is. I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it\u2014it\u2019s, like, crazy,\u201d he told Newsmax in an interview. <\/p>\n How Popular Is Bad Bunny?<\/p>\n Bad Bunny is averaging 79 million monthly listeners on Spotify, and was the app\u2019s most-streamed artist for three years in a row from 2020 through 2022. His most recent album, \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos,\u201d released in January, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. His 2022 album \u201cUn Verano Sin Ti\u201d became Spotify\u2019s most-streamed album<\/a> of all time. Bad Bunny made a guest appearance during Jennifer Lopez\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show in 2020. <\/p>\n Tangent<\/p>\n Rumors began circulating that TPUSA would host a counterprogramming halftime show last week, after a group of conservative commentators discussed the halftime show on \u201cThe Charlie Kirk Show,\u201d the podcast the TPUSA founder hosted until his death. The rumors largely circulated on one possible headliner\u2014late 90s post-grunge hitmakers Creed, which has enjoyed a resurgence of interest<\/a> in recent years. \u201cThe response is simple here\u2014bring on Creed. We need Creed, we need Scott Stapp, we need them flying down from the rafters, the greatest halftime show that has ever taken place,\u201d conservative activist Jack Posobiec said on the podcast, referencing the band\u2019s now-legendary bizarre performance<\/a> during the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 Thanksgiving Day game in 2001 at the peak of its popularity. In a Sept. 29 post on X<\/a>, Posobiec commented \u201csure would be a shame if @TPUSA hosted a counter-Superbowl halftime show with Creed.\u201d The band, which has been touring in 2025, has not commented on a possible performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Conservative campus activist organization Turning Point USA announced it would host an alternate halftime show during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23632,49,48,75,19501,98954,98953],"class_list":["post-200795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bad-bunny","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-halftime-show","tag-turning-point-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}