MAGA is screaming foul over Bad Bunny's halftime show. Here's why the NFL doesn't seem to care.
On paper, Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime performer you’d expect the NFL to hate. Most of the league’s owners lean Republican and give to Republican causes, and MAGA influencers have framed the Puerto Rican megastar as a “woke” musician who will bash the United States in Spanish and wear dresses during his performance. But as ESPN’s deep dive into the halftime decision notes, those NFL owners, as conservative as they may be, are looking to expand the NFL’s reach. That means reaching out to Latinos in this country and bumping up the league’s international footprint into regions that include Latin America. Indeed, “the massive Trump hater,” as MAGA commentator Benny Johnson called Bad Bunny last year, is exactly who the NFL wants and needs.
“I think it’s awesome, and I think our Latino fan base is amazing,” Charlotte Jones, the Dallas Cowboys’ chief brand officer and daughter of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, told Katie Miller — wife of the immigrant-bashing White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller — on Miller’s podcast in November about the selection of Bad Bunny as the halftime performer for Super Bowl 60. “We are on a global stage, and we can’t ever forget that. We have a mixed culture, and our whole society is based on immigrants who have come here and founded our country, and I think we can celebrate that.”
Forget “celebrate.” A “mixed culture” is something the MAGA world has decided it can’t even tolerate. That xenophobia is driving MAGA’s deportation push and the outrage to Bad Bunny. “To bring in a performer who is going to be the majority performing in Spanish, I think it’s sort of disrespectful to all the people who aren’t even going to understand what the hell is going on,” one conservative influencer told The Wall Street Journal.
President Donald Trump, who always picks division over unity, has called the Bad Bunny selection “ridiculous,” and said he and Green Day, the Super Bowl pregame act, are there to just “sow hatred.”
But in a Grammy award acceptance speech from a week ago that he started by saying “ICE out,” Bad Bunny explained, “We don’t hate them, we love our people, we love our family, and that’s the way to do it — with love.”
https://www.ms.now/opinion/super-bowl-lx-bad-bunny-halftime-show-nfl-needs
And TPUSA's "alternative" show is crap and will fall flat on it's azz. Meanwhile, I'll watch Bad Bunny even though I don't give a flying fuck about the Super Bowl (except I hope the Patriots lose)
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