While Bad Bunny continues to avoid the continental United States during his world tour in ice raids, the news he will be headlining of the program of the Super Bowl LX at halftime met a furious reaction of influencers Maga who complained that he “does not sing in English” and criticized Donald Trump.
The controversy increased beyond social media with Corey Lewandowski, adviser to the Ministry of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, threatening the presence of immigration and customs application (ICE) during the event to hold and expel undocumented immigrants. “There is nowhere where you can offer a safe refuge to people who are illegally in this country. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” he told the right podcaster Benny Johnson on The Benny Show. “We will find you. We will understand you. We will put you in a detention center and we will expel you, so know that it is a very real situation under this administration.”
The episode exposes the anatomy of manufactured indignation and once again positions the biggest American sporting event as a battlefield for the country’s identity policy.
The news, confirmed by the NFL at the end of Sunday evening, quickly became fuel for the controversy engine working full-time on platforms like X. In a few hours, a choir of right-wing commentators and influencers activated a now familiar script. Johnson scored it “a Trump Hater massif” and an “anti-ice activist”. Jack Posobiec, a promoter of leading pizzagate, targeted Jay-Z, whose company Roc Nation produces the event, as a cultural “genius”. The story “End Wokensiness”, with 4 million followers, uses Visual Mockery, publishing an image of the artist in a dress in response to the announcement.
These attacks are not random; These are tactics of manuals of a cultural war that seeks to mobilize its base by identifying a symbolic enemy. In this case, Bad Bunny. Not only is he an artist who sings mainly in Spanish – a fact that the influencer Mario Nawfal has at stake saying that the “average spectator of half -time at monks does not speak for reggaeton” – but his activism is explicit, coherent and directly antagonist at the ideological platform of American conservatism.
Bad Bunny is shameless political vegogne
Hostility towards Bad Bunny is not rooted in his music, but in his message. His decision not to tour in the United States, for fear declared that his fans are targeted by the immigration and customs raids (ICE), is a political declaration that few stars dare to make. “People in the United States could come here to see the show. The Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or in any part of the world. But there was the question of – as fucking ice could be outside [my concert]. And this is something we were talking about and very worried, “he said in an interview with identifier review.
This position transforms its concerts of simple entertainment events into potential sanctuaries and its absence into an act of protest.
Bad Bunny was a frank critic of Porto Rico status as a territory not constituted in society, which limits the rights and opportunities of its citizens. Its activism focused on the support of the island, where its 31 -day residence generated an economic impact of $ 400 million, according to an estimate of Wells Fargo.
