"Nobody understands a word” – Trump's fury at Bad Bunny's Spanish Super Bowl performance
Donald Trump has posted on his Truth Social platform, slamming Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny for his half-time performance at the American Superbowl, raising debates about modern cultural values in the US.
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Donald Trump has posted on his Truth Social platform, slamming Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny for his half-time performance at the American Superbowl, raising debates about modern cultural values in the US.
In his post, the president criticised the performance as “an affront to the Greatness of America” claiming that Bad Bunny’s ode to Latin culture, in particular his homeland Puerto Rico, “doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence.”
To turn up the heat even further, Trump said that “nobody understands a word this guy is saying” and that “the dancing is disgusting.”
The lavish performance from Bad Bunny aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was the first ever exclusively Spanish language performance at a Superbowl.
In a sprawling 13 song set, Bad Bunny featured a roll-call of Latin countries including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, with performance beginning with a set resembling Puerto Rico's sugar cane fields.
However, over on platforms like X - as is so often the case for controversial claims - the debate got increasingly racial, with one poster claiming Bad Bunny was honoring enslaved Africans.
Bad Bunny starting his #SuperBowl performance in a Sugarcane plantation is not a coincidence. It would honor the generations of enslaved Africans whose forced labor built sugar economies and shaped the modern world. Their suffering and resistance deserve remembrance.… pic.twitter.com/6Wu9VhtcRk
undefined Timi Olagunju ESQ. (@timithelaw) February 9, 2026
What was more likely an ode to his native Puerto Rico, with the sugar-cane plants, along with the flag he draped being an ode directly to that.
What's more, at the press conference before the Superbowl, Bad Bunny made a comment that stirred the debate as to what qualifies as America: “English is not my first language. But it’s okay, it’s not America’s first language either” - referring to Spanish - the language he used himself for his Superbowl set.
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On February 1st, Bad Bunny won three Grammys, including a historic Album of the Year victory for Debí Tirar Más Fotos.
The biggest buzz, however, came from his acceptance speech, where he declared "ICE OUT" in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and recent raids.
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And after the Superbowl, conservative political commentator and author, Nick Adams, polarised ethnicity by presenting viewers with a choice between Bad Bunny and more conservative choice Kid Rock. Adams claimed that Bad Bunny “promotes drugs, promiscuity, and disrespect for law enforcement,” compared to Kid Rock, who champions "traditional American values, and is family-friendly.”
Bad Bunny’s lyrics are not in English and promote drugs, promiscuity, and disrespect for law enforcement.
undefined Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) February 9, 2026
Kid Rock’s lyrics are coherent, promote traditional American values, and are family-friendly.
Who would you want your kids listening to at halftime?
The choice is clear.
A few days before the Superbowl, lyrics surfaced from one of Kid Rock's 2001 songs Cool Daddy Cool, which featured paedophilic lyrics: “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see. Some say that’s statutory / But I say it’s mandatory.”
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