Americanswers! Why is Trump so annoyed about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was a love letter to Latin culture, paying homage to his birthplace Puerto Rico and making history as the first Super Bowl performance performed entirely in Spanish. He was joined onstage by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin for what is regularly the most-watched event on US TV.
But Donald Trump wasn’t a fan. In a Truth Social post after the show he called it "absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!". But what did US viewers think?
Plus, the White House has taken down a racist Truth Social video aimed at Barack and Michelle Obama, depicting them as apes. Trump has said he ‘didn’t see’ the part of the video that contained the racist depiction of the former president and first lady when it was posted on his account. The White House dismissed what it described as "fake outrage" about the video but later took it down.
And Donald Trump has defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in an interview with NBC, saying “we have to back them. If we don’t back them, we don’t have a country.” Now the family of Alex Pretti - the American citizen fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis - say they want an impartial investigation into his death. Justin, Anthony, and Marianna answer your questions about the situation in Minneapolis and Trump’s latest comments that Renee Good and Alex Pretti ‘were no angels’.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Well, I have to say that, Justin, I'm pretty surprised that you are able to make this episode, |
| 0:10.9 | given that you must have been up all night watching your favourite artist. |
| 0:15.9 | Headline the Super Bowl. |
| 0:17.5 | Bad Bunny? |
| 0:18.6 | Okay, look, word of explanation. |
| 0:20.4 | For those who haven't come across my love for Mr. Bunny before is actually my daughter, Clara. |
| 0:25.9 | Mr. Bunny. |
| 0:27.3 | Who is a fan of Mr. Bunnies and is also a Spanish speaker and very keen on the whole Spanish side of it. |
| 0:35.9 | So she, I was in contact with. |
| 0:39.1 | She says it was very good, not too political, she says, before the end. |
| 0:43.9 | So I suppose the question, is that also going to be the finding of those Americans who watched it in the United States? |
| 0:52.2 | Because one American who watched it in the United States, we one American who watched it in the United States, |
| 0:54.6 | we know already, don't we, guys, did not particularly appreciate it. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, shortly after Bad Bunny's concert finished, halftime concert finished, |
| 1:02.5 | Donald Trump was on his true social website posting his take on it, and it was not a positive one. |
| 1:08.7 | He said it was absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever. |
| 1:12.2 | He said it made no sense. It was an affront to the greatness of America, |
| 1:15.8 | didn't represent our standards of success, creativity, or excellence. Nobody understood a word |
| 1:20.9 | this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are |
| 1:25.6 | watching from throughout the USA and all over the world. |
| 1:29.3 | By and large, a not positive review from the Commander-in-Chief. |
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