Recommendations of the Editorial team
Bad Bunny is at the height of his career. The Puerto-Rican artist has just finished a sold out, one-month residence in the José Miguel-Agrelot-Coliseum in San Juan, and on Sunday his album “Debí Tirar Más Photos” was the first album of 2025 the brand of 7 billion Spotify stream. On the same day, the NFL announced that Benito would be the half -time show of the Super Bowl 2026 headlines.
Rights are outraged by appearance
It gets loud, it will be Latin American, it will be (mostly) in Spanish – and rights are already insane.
Prominent Republicans fear that Bad Bunny could address President Donald Trump and his attacks on immigrants in February – and may have to switch on subtitles.
At the beginning of the month, Bad Bunny had canceled the US dates of his tour “Debí Tirar Más Photos”. Reason: The concern that large meetings of Latinos could be in the sight of the anti-immigration policy of the Trump government. “It was the topic – that ICE could be damn outside in front of my concert. We talked a lot about it and were very worried,” he said.
The announcement that an open Trump critic occurs at the greatest music event of the year immediately caused angry reactions in the Maga-based.
Conspiracy theories and insults
“The NFL destroys itself year after year,” wrote the right-wing YouTuber Benny Johnson on X. “Massive Trump-Hasser. Anti-Ice activist. No songs in English.”
The conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec even indicated that ex-President Barack Obama had controlled the selection-via Jay-Z and his company ROC Nation, which holds the NFL half-time show contract.
Commentator Greg Price criticized: “The NFL chooses Bad Bunny, although he just said that he would no longer appear in the USA because ICE deported illegal immigrants.”
Criticism of language, style and appearance
Others attacked Bad Bunny Stylistically: The “Redheaded Libertarian” account called him a “Demonic Marxist”, Podcaster Trish Regan complained vulgar texts in Spanish and English.
The right profile “End Wokeness” was bothered by a “Harper’s Bazaar” photo shoot in which Bad Bunny wore a skirt. Commentator Mario Nawfal mocked: “Maybe someone should say the NFL that the average viewer in the moin does not speak a fluent reggaeton.”
Filmmaker Robby Starbuck criticized that Bad Bunny published a video against Trump and canceled appearances in the USA for ICE: “Most of his songs are not even in English. This is no choice that fans united, but split.”
Reality contra right outrage
The truth: The consent to Trump’s hard immigration policy drops, while ICE continues to use authoritarian methods. Latin and South America are among the largest growth regions of the NFL. And Bad Bunny is – whether it likes the right or not – one of the most popular artists in the world.