The NFL has confirmed that Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny will headline the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show — and predictably, MAGA world is already fuming.
At just 31, Bad Bunny has become one of the most influential artists of the 21st century, making history with the first Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200 and selling out global tours. But what has Trump loyalists triggered isn’t his music — it’s his politics.
Bad Bunny has never been shy about calling out Donald Trump’s catastrophic failures, particularly his shameful response to Hurricane Maria in 2017, when thousands of Puerto Ricans died while Trump infamously tossed paper towels to survivors and tried to block disaster aid. In a video with Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the last election, the singer highlighted how Trump abandoned Puerto Rico when its people needed competent leadership the most.
Trump’s allies have seized on the halftime show announcement to cry “woke.” Conservative commentator Robbie Starbuck complained on X that the choice was “propaganda,” while the End Wokeness account mocked Bad Bunny for challenging gender norms in his fashion choices. Others dredged up his past remarks about ICE raids, ignoring that his stance reflected real fears for immigrant fans under Trump’s cruel deportation machine.
But Bad Bunny brushed off the outrage, saying the performance is bigger than politics. “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself. It’s for my people, my culture, and our history,” he told fans.
This isn’t Bad Bunny’s first Super Bowl appearance — he performed alongside Shakira in 2020 — but this time he’s center stage, representing a younger, more diverse America that Trump and his MAGA followers can’t stand.
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