Trump blasts 'worst ever' Super Bowl half-time show as he calls Bad Bunny performance a 'slap in the face' to America
The US President said he could hardly understand a word as he slammed the performance as "absolutely terrible".
Donald Trump has branded Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show “a slap in the face” to America after the Puerto Rican rapper performed almost entirely in Spanish.
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The 31-year-old singer, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, took to the stage in Santa Clara, California, in a high-energy performance celebrating his Puerto Rican heritage and culture.
Hitting out at the performance, the US president said he could hardly understand a word as he slammed the performance as "absolutely terrible".
“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, describing the dancing as “disgusting”.
“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence.
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“This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day,” he wrote.
Green Day also performed at the Super Bowl, and singer Billie Joe Armstrong went against singing an anti-Trump line about "MAGA agenda," which had been worked into recent performances of American Idiot.
Bad Bunny's highly-anticipated performance opened on Puerto Rican scenes of dominoes and sugar cane fields, set to the musician's 2022 single Titi Me Pregunto, before moving into Perreo Sola, sang atop the rooftop of a casita - or little house.
At one point in the show, Bad Bunny said, "God bless America, whether it’s Chile, Argentina,” before listing more than 20 nations in North and South America, and displayed the flags of many of them.
Standing beside the US flag and the flag of Puerto Rico, a US territory, he also displayed a message written on a football that read: “Together we are America.”
The performance reached a dramatic peak when Bad Bunny crashed through the casita roof to the familiar notes of Daddy Yankee's Gasolina, a tribute to past creatives who paved the way for today's Latin music scene.
Later on, he was joined by Lady Gaga, who performed a salsa version of her Bruno Mars collaboration Die with a Smile.
The stage transformed into a block party set for renditions of Baile Inolvidable and NuevaYol, where he took a shot with the owner of one of New York City's last remaining Puerto Rican social clubs.
The main event of the American football season saw the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks collide in a rematch of the 2015 Super Bowl, with the Seahawks emerging 29-13 victors.
The Latin American musician, who exploded onto the international scene last year with his sixth studio album Debi Tirar Mas Fotos, recently made history at the Grammys as the first artist to win Album of the Year for a record sung entirely in Spanish.
Mr Trump has previously described Bad Bunny as a “terrible choice” for the halftime Super Bowl show, which comes after the Puerto Rican star criticised ICE during his Grammy's acceptance speech.
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out,” the rapper said.
He added: “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens... we are humans and we are Americans.”