Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick didn’t hold back from letting fans know how she feels about the headliner for this season’s Super Bowl halftime.
The NFL surprised many when Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny was announced as the performer for the halftime show for Super Bowl LX, which will take place at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium in February.
Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, sings and raps in Spanish on his tracks.
The Reggaetón artist has been critical of Donald Trump’s immigration policies and recently admitted he refused to tour in the US over concerns that his fans would be targeted by ICE.
And his selection as the halftime act has left Trump supporter Patrick rattled as the 43-year-old took to social media to make her disdain known.
‘Oh fun,’ Patrick wrote on X. ‘No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America’s highest rated television events of the year … not just for sports.’
Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick (R) spoke out on Bad Bunny’s (L) Super Bowl selection
The former IndyCar racer took to social media to make her disdain about the decision known
Patrick has only recently gotten involved in politics and began campaigning for Trump in the run-up to last year’s election. She even admitted that before then, she had never even voted before.
However, since the president’s return to the White House, she hasn’t hesitated to wade in on a number of political issues, most recently including the death of political commentator Charlie Kirk and the subsequent suspension of Jimmy Kimmel by ABC.
The late night talk show host was briefly suspended by the network last month after he said that ‘the MAGA gang’ was attempting to portray the suspect in Kirk’s assassination ‘as anything other than one of them’.
Disney, the parent company to ABC, described Kimmel’s comments as ‘ill-timed and thus insensitive’ in announcing his return last week.
Patrick celebrated the news that he had been suspended but later said she understands the decision to bring him back.
Bad Bunny, meanwhile, celebrated his selection as the Super Bowl halftime act by calling it a victory for ‘my people, my culture, and our history’ amid massive blowback from MAGA world.
‘What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,’ he said. ‘It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history.’
In his recent single ‘NUEVAYoL’, released over the summer, a voice sounding suspiciously similar to the president’s is also heard issuing an apology to ‘immigrants in America’.
Other MAGA commentators voiced their outrage online after the announcement, with some predicting Bad Bunny would hijack the American platform to push a ‘woke’ narrative and criticize Trump’s immigration policy.
