By Howie Katz
Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny perform together during the Super Bowl halftime show
After Beyoncé glorified the police- hating Black Panthers with her halftime Super Bowl show in 2016, I stopped watching what I call the "Stupor Bowl." To me it's just a hyped-up football game. Sunday was no different except that I watched the Bad Bunny halftime show.
I really have no interest in rap, except for reading about the latest rap artist getting shot. I never even heard of Bad Bunny until the NFL got a lot of flack when it announced that he would be featured in this years stupor bowl. That is because the Puerto Rican - true name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio - has been badmouthing Trump since 2017. And during the recent Grammy Awards he slammed ICE during his acceptance speech.
What I saw was simply a fantastic show. As can be expected since Bad Bunny has criticized him, that's not the way Trump saw it.. Here is what he said on his Truth Social website:
What a load of garbage. Except for his statement about the stock market, evrything else is a downright lie or stretches the truth. Even had Bad Bunny sung in English, most people would not have understood it. And his remark about young children is laughable.
It's probably a good thing Bad Bunny sang in Spanish because a translation revealed that the lyrics were full of explicit sexual filth which conservative commentator Megan Basham described as 'the most obscene lyrics ever to be performed at a Super Bowl halftime.' But that did not change how spectacular the show was.
It's too bad that the 'Trump Uber Alles' TV viewers chose to watch the counter-show from Turning Point USA. They missed a truly fantastic show.
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