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Tim Miller: MAGA’s Bad Bunny Freakout Means They're Losing Control

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace to take on MAGA tantrum over Bad Bunny, and how it shows their attempt to control American culture is failing.

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0:00.0

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0:21.6

What's on with Nicole Wallace?

0:22.9

And we're discussing the MAGA panic attack over Bad Bunny being named to the halftime show host of the Super Bowl. And, you know, look, we'll keep this a quick one. There's a lot of weightier issues out there for us to cover. But as we get into, I do think it's telling about, you know, kind of the culture war part of this fight, where the Magaside really saw Trump's win is not just a political victory, but a cultural

0:42.4

one.

0:43.4

And they expect now cultural hegemony over the rest of the country.

0:48.5

And they're not getting it.

0:50.6

And in some ways, that's a good sign.

0:52.8

And that's powerful.

0:53.7

And it's maybe as powerful.

0:56.0

I don't want to overstate it.

0:57.7

It's an important ballast against Trump's political power, pushing back on them culturally,

1:04.1

having people feel like they're out of step culturally.

1:07.1

You know, a bunch of old white guys running about bad bunny.

1:10.1

I don't know about you guys, listeners. I'm sure some of you don't listen to Bad Bunny. I went to a Bad Bunny show last year in New Orleans, like almost as a cultural experience because I, I recognize that that was something that kind of hadn't pierced my bubble really that much. And I thought it'd be interesting. It was. It was like, I was at the Smoothie King in New Orleans a small town. I bump into people all the time. I didn't really bump into anybody. I knew it was kind of like a different, you know, different audience. I found out later a couple of my pals were there just on the other side of the other side of the stadium. So, you know, sometimes maybe your bubble wasn't quite as tight as you think it is.

1:46.1

But, you know, when it comes to this to bad money in particular, like, I get that.

1:53.1

Like if you're, if you're thinking, man, this is the Super Bowl act. Like, maybe I'm not as in touch

1:58.1

with America. But that's kind of the great part of America

2:01.1

it's a beautiful part of America is like

2:02.7

that there's all this stuff happening out there and that

2:04.6

we're like the Salman's Salman Gandhi

2:06.3

of cultures

2:08.5

and attitudes and views

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