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The NFL\u2019s pick of Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny<\/strong> to headline the 2026 Super Bowl<\/a> halftime show ignited fury among MAGA commentators who fumed that the artist, a vocal critic of the administration\u2019s deportation drive, is a \u201cTrump hater.\u201d<\/p>\n The three-time Grammy winner, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio<\/strong>, will headline<\/a> the show on February 8, 2026, at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, it was announced Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is for my people, my culture, and our history,\u201d he said in a statement posted in reaction to the news.<\/p>\n High-profile MAGA influencers and commentators, however, protested the pick:<\/p>\n The 31-year-old has previously vowed to avoid U.S. tours while Trump was in office and mocked the president in his music, including a recent single that featured a Trump-like voice apologizing \u201cto immigrants in America.\u201d<\/p>\n The post MAGA Rages as \u2018Trump Hater\u2019 Bad Bunny Picked for 2026 Super Bowl Half-Time Show<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (GDA via AP Images) The NFL\u2019s pick of Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny to headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show ignited fury among MAGA commentators who fumed that the artist, a vocal critic of the administration\u2019s deportation drive, is a \u201cTrump hater.\u201d The three-time Grammy winner, whose real name is Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2057166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[30802,344195,143276,304804,362205,346955,24638],"class_list":["post-2057165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bad-bunny","tag-benito-antonio-martinez-ocasio","tag-maga","tag-nfl","tag-roger-goodell","tag-super-bowl","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MAGA-Rages-as-\u2018Trump-Hater-Bad-Bunny-Picked-for-2026.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2057166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}