Trump’s Fury at NFL Show Spikes amid Fresh Signs His Base is Imploding

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump was initially angry over the decision to feature Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl halftime show. But then, as he performed, Trump’s rage worsened: In a furious rant, he claimed the show was a “slap in the face” to our country, that Bad Bunny’s use of Spanish means “nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” and that the show was “absolutely terrible.” Other MAGA figures fumed that the show was a betrayal of America. Meanwhile, CNN polling guru Harry Enten details in a new analysis that Trump is hemorrhaging support from his working class base. What if those two developments—Trump-MAGA fury at the show and Trump bleeding his base—are related? We talked to Adrian Carrasquillo, author of The Bulwark’s excellent newsletter “Huddled Masses.” We discuss how Trump-MAGA are in a bubble about Bad Bunny’s show, how most Americans likely viewed it, why Trump’s ICE raids and hostility to immigrants are costing him working class support, and how that wrecks various myths about 2024. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.2	In the wake of Bad Bunny's widely acclaimed performance at the Super Bowl,
0:34.7	anger from Donald Trump and MAGA has only grown.
0:40.3	Trump exploded in rage on truth social, and numerous MAGA figures denounced the show as a betrayal of America. This comes amid new signs that Trump is hemorrhaging support from his
0:47.1	base, as one polling analyst showed in a remarkable CNN segment. We think these things are all connected.
0:57.2	Trump MAGA Fury over a halftime show put on by Bad Bunny, a leading ice critic, shows that MAGA is deeply out of touch with the American
1:03.3	mainstream, and that's visible in data showing Trump bleeding working class support. We're working
1:09.7	through all this today with Adrian Carasquillo,
1:12.1	who covers immigration and Latino culture for the bulwark. Adrian, great to have you on.
1:17.4	Thanks so much, Greg. Julie, an honor to be on with you. So let's start with Trump and his base.
1:21.9	Listen to this from CNN polling analyst Harry Enton. Well, Donald Trump's base with non-college voters is absolutely collapsing.
1:29.7	What are we talking about here? Well, why don't we just take a look? Voters without a college
1:33.6	degree on Donald Trump. Look at this. Back in 2024, he won those voters over Kamala Harris by 14 points.
1:39.6	You come over to this side of the screen. What's his net approval rating with him? He is underwater by nine
1:44.8	points. That's a 23-point switcheroo with his base of non-college voters. He is absolutely collapsing.
1:52.8	So Harry's using an average of polls there, and he finds that compared to Trump's 2024 showing
1:58.0	with non-college voters, which is a proxy for working class.
2:01.5	He's now swung 23 points and trails among them by nine.
2:06.1	Adrian, Trump's coalition relies on the inroads he's made with non-white working class voters
2:11.3	and also on overwhelming support with the white working class.
2:14.4	You've written about the non-white working class.
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