Donald Trump Threw a Temper Tantrum Over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show

Bad Bunny delivered a night to remember at the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. The Puerto Rican singer honored his hometown, married a couple live on stage, and symbolically passed his Grammy Award for Album of the Year to the next generation of Latin singers. There was really nothing to nitpick. It was a celebration.

That is, unless you’re Donald Trump. The president, who stated that he would not watch the annual NFL performance in favor of Turning Point USA’s counterprogrammed “All-American” broadcast featuring Kid Rock, wrote in a long Truth Social post that Bad Bunny’s performance was "absolutely terrible." Come on, man.

"It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence," Trump ranted on social media. He complained that "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying," and called the halftime show "a slap in the face to our country." Trump also stated that there was "nothing inspirational" about the show, and that it would still get rave reviews from "the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD."

Much like most of the President’s rambling screeds on social media, it’s a saddening—yet unsurprising—take to stomach. The guy can’t even appreciate a wedding on live TV just because Bad Bunny criticized ICE at the Grammys. And if you speak another language in this country, then that apparently makes you un-American now, too. Forget the fact that the “REAL WORLD,” according to the United States Census Bureau’s 2019 report, states that more than half (55 percent) of the Spanish speakers in this country (over 40 million people, by the way) were U.S.-born Americans citizens.

Trump doesn’t care. Still, it seems the president watched Bad Bunny’s performance over the alternative Turning Point USA stream even though he said he wouldn't. The counterprogrammed MAGA show—from what I've seen—featured Kid Rock poorly lip-syncing throughout his entire set. Trump might’ve hated Bad Bunny’s halftime show, but even he couldn’t watch his own party's nonsense.