Trump slams ‘absolutely terrible’ Bad Bunny halftime show: ‘Slap in the face to our country’

Trump is hosting his own Super Bowl watch party thousands of miles away at his Mar-a-Lago resort

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President Donald Trump has slammed Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance as “an affront to the Greatness of America” in a lengthy post on Truth Social.

“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,” Trump said on Truth Social approximately 30 minutes after the performance ended.

“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World,” Trump continued.

“This “Show” is just a “slap in the face” to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History!” the president fumed. “There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime Show and watch, it will get great reviews from the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD.”

Trump is hosting his own Super Bowl watch party thousands of miles away at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to the president’s public schedule.

Trump last week suggested the halftime show headliner was one of the reasons he was staying away from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

The Puerto Rican megastar, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is the first male solo Latin artist to perform the halftime show, as well as the first to perform their set entirely in Spanish.

“I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,” Trump said of Bad Bunny and Green Day, who opened the event.

Both artists have been outspoken against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration crackdown, though Green Day avoided any controversy during their performance.

After it was first announced that the Grammy winner would headline the big game last year, the president called the pick “absolutely ridiculous” and said he had never heard of Bad Bunny.

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