Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance left Donald Trump outraged and sent him into a fury on social media
The President has viciously attacked Bad Bunny’s halftime show at Super Bowl LX, slamming it as ‘one of the worst ever’.
Rapper Bad Bunny — born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — electrified the audience at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday (February 8) with a bold, fully Spanish-language halftime show. In a striking visual moment, he moved across a stage designed like a sugarcane field while performing some of his biggest hits.
His rapid-fire delivery and signature Latin trap style thrilled many fans in attendance. However, some viewers who weren’t familiar with Spanish or his musical approach said they struggled to follow along, sparking mixed reactions online.
Among the critics was former President Donald Trump, who reportedly took issue with the performance. Despite Bad Bunny’s impressive résumé — including six Grammy Awards and being Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the year four times — Trump described the set as “disgusting.”
Taking to Truth Social, the US president wrote:
“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.
“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!
“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! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Trump was not in attendance at this year’s Super Bowl, after previously claiming that it was ‘too far’ for him to travel.
Speaking to the New York Post before the biggest game in the NFL calendar, the president made it clear that he did not like the politics of the artists playing at the Super Bowl, which included the vocally anti-ICE and anti-MAGA Green Day.
Having previously claimed he’d ‘never heard’ of Bad Bunny, Trump said: “I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”
So perhaps it is unsurprising that Trump was not moved by the Puerto Rican singer’s performance in a language spoken by over 40 million Americans and 600 million people around the world.
Yet some of the less subtle messaging in the Latin-infused halftime show likely enraged the president further, with a billboard pointedly reading ‘the only thing more powerful than hate is love’ as the set came to close.
The final shot of the historic halftime performance was Bad Bunny gripping a football while surrounded by Latin American performers. The ball simply read: “Together we are America.”
