{"id":48551,"date":"2025-10-07T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/trump-says-hes-never-heard-of-bad-bunny-ahead-of-super-bowl\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:24:43","slug":"trump-says-hes-never-heard-of-bad-bunny-ahead-of-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/trump-says-hes-never-heard-of-bad-bunny-ahead-of-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He\u2019s &#8216;Never Heard&#8217; of Bad Bunny Ahead of Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s crazy,&#8221; the president said of the Puerto Rican superstar being picked to perform the Super Bowl halftime show <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPresident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> claims he hasn\u2019t heard music by one of the biggest American artists in the world. While calling into Newsmax\u2019s <em>Greg Kelly Reports<\/em> on Tuesday, the president was asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bad-bunny\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bad-bunny\" data-tag=\"bad-bunny\">Bad Bunny<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-peformance-controversy-1235438218\/\">headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThis guy does not seem like a unifying entertainer, and a lot of folks don\u2019t even know who he is,\u201d Kelly teed up Trump, despite (fact check) Bad Bunny\u2019s albums topping charts and breaking records as one of the most-streamed artists in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI never heard of him. I don\u2019t know who he is,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s crazy, and then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it\u2019s absolutely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI never heard of him. I don&#8217;t know who he is. I don&#8217;t know why they&#8217;re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s \u201cGreg Kelly Reports,\u201d President Donald Trump joined the show and commented on the NFL\u2019s decision to feature singer Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregkellyusa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@gregkellyusa<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LP6DNMDFgs\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LP6DNMDFgs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEWSMAX\/status\/1975386152027779418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> over the weekend, Bad Bunny joked about the right-wing backlash he\u2019s received over his selection to headline the Super Bowl. He said that \u201ceveryone is happy\u201d about his future gig \u2014 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/snl-bad-bunny-reacts-backlash-spanish-super-bowl-show-four-months-learn-1235440856\/\">even Fox News<\/a>.\u201d He then rolled a rapid succession of clips of hosts on the right-wing network, combining to say: \u201cBad Bunny. Is. My favorite. Musician. And he should be the next. President.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOver the weekend, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/kristi-noem-ice-super-bowl-blasts-nfl-bad-bunny-1235440974\/\">all over<\/a>\u201d the 2026 Super Bowl and she slammed the NFL\u2019s decision to book the Puerto Rican star as the halftime headliner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBad Bunny recently addressed why he wouldn\u2019t tour the United States on his upcoming tour, citing fears that ICE would<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/bad-bunny-skipped-the-us-tour-over-ice-concerns-1235424755\/\"> target his fans<\/a>. When asked by interviewer Suzy Exposito in\u00a0an interview with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/bad-bunny-puerto-rico-residency-issue-375-cover\/\"><em>i-D<\/em><\/a>. if his decision was \u201cout of concern\u201d for Latino fans, Bad Bunny responded: \u201cMan, honestly, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/donald-trump-claims-never-heard-bad-bunny-1235442524\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s crazy,&#8221; the president said of the Puerto Rican superstar being picked to perform the Super Bowl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":48552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}