Speaker **Mike Johnson** (R-LA) said Tuesday the NFL choosing **Bad Bunny** as the Super Bowl halftime performer was a “terrible decision,” suggesting the league should have selected 82-year-old country singer **Lee Greenwood** instead.
Bad Bunny was revealed as the performer during halftime of last week’s _Thursday Night Football_ game. That announcement was met with a [wave of backlash from the right](https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/maga-rages-as-trump-hater-bad-bunny-picked-for-2026-super-bowl-half-time-show/), with many citing the Puerto Rican rapper’s support of immigrants. He’ll soon begin a world tour excluding the United States, saying he didn’t want ICE agents to harass his fans.
On Tuesday, Johnson was asked by reporter **Pablo Manriquez** for his thoughts on the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
“I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was, OK,” Johnson said, “but it sounds like a terrible decision in my view.”
Asked to elaborate further, Johnson suggested that Bad Bunny didn’t appeal to a “broader audience” and that he wasn’t a role model to “impressionable children.”
“Well, it sounds like he’s not someone who appeals to a broader audience,” Johnson continued. “And I think — you know, there’s so many eyes on the Super Bowl, a lot of young impressionable children, and I think, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood — or role models — doing that, not somebody like this.”
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