NFL: Trump says Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime was ‘absolutely terrible’

February 9, 2026 – 1:57 PM

Super Bowl LX – Half-Time Show – New England Patriots v Seattle Seahawks – Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California, United States – February 8, 2026 Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday in a social media post that the Super Bowl halftime show fronted by

Puerto Rican singer

Bad Bunny was “absolutely terrible.”

Bad Bunny — whose given name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio — headlined the Super Bowl LX

halftime show

in Santa Clara, California, bringing Spanish language and reggaeton rhythms to the annual American football spectacle.

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The 31-year-old artist, whose album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” won Album of the Year at this year’s Grammys, has been outspoken in his criticism of Trump’s deportation policies and openly supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race.

Weeks before the Super Bowl, Trump

fired back

at Bad Bunny, calling his selection as the Super Bowl halftime act “absolutely ridiculous.”

The president on Sunday renewed his attacks on the Puerto Rican performer.

“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the halftime show concluded. “It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence.”

The conservative group Turning Point USA produced an alternative halftime concert, which it called the “All-American Halftime Show”, featuring Kid Rock and other artists.

Turning Point USA was founded by slain activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk.

Seattle were leading New England 9-0 at halftime.

—Reporting by Costas Pitas; Writing by Helen Coster. Editing by Jamie Freed, Sergio Non and Peter Rutherford