{"id":463460,"date":"2026-02-09T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:08:08","slug":"trump-slams-absolutely-terrible-bad-bunny-halftime-show-slap-in-the-face-to-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463460\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams \u2018absolutely terrible\u2019 Bad Bunny halftime show: \u2018Slap in the face to our country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> has slammed Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show performance <\/a>as \u201can affront to the Greatness of America\u201d in a lengthy post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Super Bowl<\/a> Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn\u2019t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,\u201d Trump said on Truth Social approximately 30 minutes after the performance ended.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rant comes as Turning Point USA\u2019s \u201cAll-American\u201d Super Bowl halftime show,<\/a> headlined by Kid Rock, garnered roughly four million views. The event, which was streamed online, was launched in protest against the NFL\u2019s picks.<\/p>\n

The average Super Bowl halftime show pulls in around 127 million, while last year<\/a> Kendrick Lamar set a record with 133.5 million.<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny<\/a>, born Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, is the first male solo Latin artist to perform the halftime show,<\/a> as well as the first to perform their set entirely in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Toward the end of his set, Bad Bunny was handed a ball with the words, \u201cTogether, we are America\u201d written on it, and a message on the big screen read: \u201cThe only thing more powerful than hate is love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\u2018An<\/p>\n

\u2018An affront to the Greatness of America\u2019: Trump took to Truth Social to voice his upset over Bad Bunny\u2019s performance (Reuters)<\/p>\n

But the message of unity clearly did not go down well with the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody 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,\u201d Trump raged.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis \u201cShow\u201d is just a \u201cslap in the face\u201d to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day \u2014 including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History!\u201d the president fumed. \u201cThere 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\u2019t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"It\u2019s<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear whether Trump watched the Turning Point USA halftime show, but from the president\u2019s Truth Social post, it\u2019s apparent he did not miss the Puerto Rican megastar (AP)<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether Trump watched the Turning Point USA halftime show, but from the president\u2019s Truth Social post, it became apparent he did not miss the Puerto Rican megastar.<\/p>\n

Trump is hosting his own Super Bowl watch party thousands of miles away at his Mar-a-Lago<\/a> resort in West Palm Beach<\/a>, Florida, according to the president\u2019s public schedule.<\/p>\n

Trump last week suggested the halftime show headliner <\/a>was one of the reasons he was staying away from Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.<\/p>\n

\"Toward<\/p>\n

Toward the end of his set, a message on the big screen read: \u2018The only thing more powerful than hate is love\u2019 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m anti-them. I think it\u2019s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,\u201d Trump said of Bad Bunny and Green Day<\/a>, who opened the event.<\/p>\n

Both artists have been outspoken against the Trump administration\u2019s anti-immigration crackdown, though Green Day<\/a> avoided any controversy during their performance.<\/a><\/p>\n

After it was first announced that the Grammy winner would headline the big game last year, the president called the pick \u201cabsolutely ridiculous\u201d<\/a> and said he had never heard of Bad Bunny.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story, more follows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has slammed Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show performance as \u201can affront to the Greatness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23632,49,48,1376,75,30532,4279,98953],"class_list":{"0":"post-463460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-halftime-show","14":"tag-truth-social","15":"tag-turning-point-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463460","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=463460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}