Danica Patrick at the 'Don't Look Up' premiere in New York City on Dec. 5, 2021; Bad Bunny performing at 'SNL50: The Homecoming Concert' in New York City on Feb. 14, 2025
Danica Patrick at the 'Don't Look Up' premiere in New York City on Dec. 5, 2021; Bad Bunny performing at 'SNL50: The Homecoming Concert' in New York City on Feb. 14, 2025.
Danica Patrick thinks there's no place for Bad Bunny — or any other Spanish-language performer — at the Super Bowl halftime show unless they sing in English.
The former racecar driver, who campaigned for Donald Trump, slammed the Super Bowl for hiring the "DTMF" musician to perform at the 2026 Halftime Show.
"Oh fun," Patrick wrote on X alongside an eye-rolling emoji. "No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America’s highest rated television events of the year… not just for sports."
Danica Patrick at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Lititz, Penn., on Nov. 3, 2024
Danica Patrick at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Lititz, Penn., on Nov. 3, 2024
Patrick also reposted a video from an account called The Redheaded Libertarian that accused Bad Bunny of being "a demonic Marxist who was been granted the largest stage with the greatest audience in the middle of a Christian revival."
Representatives for Bad Bunny did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.
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Bad Bunny, who was the third-most streamed artist on Spotify in 2024 despite not releasing an album that year, celebrated scoring the gig in a statement on Sunday.
"What I'm feeling goes beyond myself," the artist, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, 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. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el halftime show del Super Bowl."
Bad Bunny performing in Philadelphia on April 19, 2024
Bad Bunny performing in Philadelphia on April 19, 2024
Bad Bunny will completely avoid the continental United States for his upcoming Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour — aside from the Super Bowl, which will be held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. At the time that the tour was announced, the musician simply said that "it's unnecessary" to perform in the States (besides his native Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory and hosted his 31-show residency earlier this year).
However, the musician later revealed that he declined to perform in the rest of the country because of increased ICE activity and widespread deportations of Latin American immigrants under the Trump administration.
"I've enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the U.S.," Bad Bunny told i-D in September. "But there was the issue of — like, f---ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about."
Bad Bunny at the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 9, 2023
Bad Bunny at the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 9, 2023
Ocasio's concerns were almost immediately proven to be valid, as Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for Trump who now serves as an informal advisor to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, announced that DHS would send ICE to the Super Bowl.
"There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else," Lewandowski declared on Wednesday's episode of the right-wing YouTube interview program The Benny Show. "We will find you and apprehend you and put you in a detention facility and deport you."
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Bad Bunny, and all Puerto Ricans, are U.S. citizens due to the island's status as a U.S. territory. But Lewandowski insisted, "If there are illegal aliens, I don't care if it's a concert for Johnny Smith or Bad Bunny or anybody else. We're going to do enforcement everywhere. We are going to make Americans safe. That is a directive from the president. If you're in this country illegally, go home."