During his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, Bad Bunny made cheeky feedback in regards to the criticism he is going through after being named the Super Bowl LX halftime performer.
Bad Bunny (actual title Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) introduced up the controversy surrounding the information of his upcoming halftime efficiency.
“I’m very happy and I think everyone is happy about it, even Fox News,” he joked.
He performed a clips of Fox News anchors spliced collectively to say, “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician, and he should be the next president.”
“I’m very excited to be doing the Super Bowl, and I know people all around the world are very happy,” Bunny added earlier than delivering a prolonged message to his supporters in Spanish.
Bunny wrapped up the message, and his speech, with a discover to prep viewers for the Super Bowl.
“If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn,” he concluded.
Bunny’s announcement that he’d be performing on the Super Bowl got here after he stated he’d beforehand excluded the U.S. from his tour because of the risk of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) coming to his reveals.
“I’ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the U.S.,” he stated in an interview with i-D final month.
“But specifically, for a residency here in Puerto Rico, when we are an incorporated territory of the U.S. … People from the U.S. could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world. But there was the issue of—like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
In an official assertion after the NFL’s reveal that he’d be performing on the present, Bad Bunny expressed his pleasure for performing.
“What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” he stated. “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. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.”
After the announcement, Corey Lewandowski, who’s an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, suggested that ICE would have a presence at the Super Bowl.
“There is nowhere you may present protected haven to people who find themselves on this nation illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski stated on The Benny Show podcast.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem additionally appeared on the podcast and dropped threats about ICE on the Super Bowl, saying federal brokers could be “all over that place” and have each intention to “enforce the law.”
“I have the responsibility for making sure that everybody [who] goes to the Super Bowl has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave. And that’s what America is about,” she stated.
After The Benny Show’s host requested Noem if she had a response to the NFL maybe attempting to “send a message” to President Donald Trump with Bad Bunny’s efficiency, Noem responded with a diss to the sports activities group.
“They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us,” Noem stated. “We’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe and they’re so weak. We’ll fix it.”