The NFL’s decision to feature Latin artist Bad Bunny at halftime has already sparked controversy in some conservative circles, with critics arguing that his predominantly Spanish-language music and stances on issues such as immigration make him an unconventional pick for the game’s massive audience.
His 2025 song “Nuevayol” features an imitated Trump voice saying, “I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. . . . This country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
Green Day, which formed in the East Bay Area in the 1980s, is set to perform during the game’s opening ceremony. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has long denounced the administration and has altered the lyrics of the band’s 2004 Grammy-nominated song “American Idiot” during live performances, changing the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”
In July, Armstrong led a Download Festival crowd in a chant calling Trump a “fat bastard.”
I see. I had that figure incorrect then. I apologise.
I hope you are right in the fact that most people see what ICE are doing as truly awful. I struggle to see how you could look at it and not think that.
If 30 odd percent support what is going on then by all accounts Trump should lose drastically in the mid-terms.
Whether he does or he doesn’t will be very interesting, to say the least.