{"id":423552,"date":"2026-02-13T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:14:13","slug":"the-view-takes-aim-at-kiddie-rock-for-maga-friendly-super-bowl-halftime-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423552\/","title":{"rendered":"The View takes aim at \u2018Kiddie Rock\u2019 for MAGA-friendly Super Bowl halftime show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whoopi Goldberg has poked fun at Kid Rock\u2019s alternative Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the co-hosts of The View broached the \u201chot topics\u201d of the week in a roundtable during Thursday\u2019s episode of the ABC daytime talk show, the discussion turned to the ongoing conservative backlash <\/a>prompted by Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Goldberg<\/a>, 70, laughed as she joked that the specifically crafted online complaints of the all-Spanish language set meant that the viewers had still watched Bad Bunny instead of \u201cKiddie Rock\u2019s\u201d show, hosted by conservative group Turning Point USA \u2014 meaning the group\u2019s goal to provide an alternative \u201cAll-American Halftime Show\u201d <\/a>backfired.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it wonderful that you all were watching \u2014\u00a0because you all said you weren\u2019t going to watch at all, so how did you know?\u201d she joked. \u201cBecause I just assumed you were going to be watching Kiddie Rock.\u201d<\/p>\n

True to Goldberg\u2019s point, ratings showed that the vast majority of Americans tuned in to watch Bad Bunny<\/a> instead of Kid Rock and the other singers who joined in on the \u201cfamily-friendly\u201d performance. While a massive 128.2 million viewers<\/a> watched the NFL\u2019s official intermission show, only 6.1 million people<\/a> watched TPUSA\u2019s pro-MAGA lineup.<\/p>\n

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Whoopi Goldberg made fun of Kid Rock’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show during Thursday’s episode of ‘The View’ (Getty Images)\"Bad<\/p>\n

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Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show performance was entirely in Spanish, which sparked backlash from conservatives (AP)<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show performance has been a major topic of discussion for the co-hosts of The View this week, with Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin getting emotional about the show \u2014 which celebrated the superstar\u2019s Puerto Rican heritage \u2014 during Monday\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n

Goldberg began the conversation by responding to critics, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s okay if you didn\u2019t understand what he was saying. If you didn\u2019t catch the vibe of, \u2018We\u2019re proud to be here. We\u2019re happy to be American.\u2019 If you didn\u2019t understand that he is American because Puerto Rico is part of the United States. If you didn\u2019t get anything, that\u2019s okay. All those things are okay. The truth of the matter is, you\u2019re not a large majority, and that\u2019s the mistake we make. You are not a large majority. You\u2019re loud, but you\u2019re not the largest majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EGOT winner went on to say to people who were offended by Bad Bunny\u2019s performance<\/a> and called it \u201cun-American\u201d: \u201cYou are the most snowflake-ian people I\u2019ve ever seen. Everything bothers you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hostin, whose mother is Puerto Rican, added about the emotional finale of the halftime show<\/a>: \u201cThe Latino community is under attack right now, I think it meant not only a lot to Puerto Ricans, but to every Latino and every American as well. So, I was verklempt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Navarro, who was born in Nicaragua, similarly praised Bad Bunny for using his platform to call for unity, saying: \u201cTo have Bad Bunny use that platform to say, do not otherize us, we are all part of America, and we are all equal and we all belong, and love is stronger than hate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-423552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}