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Tomi Lahren, a Republican<\/a> commentator, faced backlash after a viral debate clip showed her claiming Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny<\/a> is not an American.<\/p>\n The exchange happened earlier this week on Lahren\u2019s show, when she invited \u201cBreaking Points with Krystal and Saagar\u201d co-host Krystal Ball to discuss news topics, including the announcement that Bad Bunny would headline the 2026 Super Bowl<\/a> halftime show.<\/p>\n Towards the end of the program, Lahren asked Ball if she thought Bad Bunny was \u201ca good choice for the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/a> Ball admitted she didn\u2019t follow the performer closely, but defended the selection. \u201cI\u2019m not that knowledgeable about Bad Bunny,\u201d she said, \u201cbut he seems like a great American artist, so sure.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s not an American artist, but\u2014\u201d Lahren began to respond.<\/p>\n Ball quickly corrected her, saying, \u201cHe\u2019s Puerto Rican. That\u2019s part of America, dear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Lahren did not continue arguing the point after Ball corrected her, instead shifting to criticize Bad Bunny for his past remarks about immigration enforcement. She referenced his criticism of ICE, but Ball pushed back, saying, \u201cAmerica agrees with him on that.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, Bad Bunny announced he would not tour in the U.S., citing concerns that immigration enforcement could target his fans.<\/p>\n In response, Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski even threatened to have ICE agents present at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n There have been several Super Bowl headliners born outside the continental U.S. Rihanna<\/a>, who performed in 2023, was born in Barbados, Shakira<\/a>, the 2020 co-headliner, is from Colombia, and The Weeknd, who headlined in 2021, is Canadian. Coldplay’s Chris Martin and The Rolling Stones are each from the U.K.<\/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.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomi Lahren, a Republican commentator, faced backlash after a viral debate clip showed her claiming Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny is not an American. The exchange happened earlier this week on Lahren\u2019s show, when she invited \u201cBreaking Points with Krystal and Saagar\u201d co-host Krystal Ball to discuss news topics, including the announcement that Bad Bunny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2067979,"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":[25177],"tags":[386822,30802,361996,22391,304711,345561,346955,386821],"class_list":["post-2067978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-american-identity","tag-bad-bunny","tag-debate","tag-fox-news","tag-immigration","tag-republicans","tag-super-bowl","tag-tomi-lahren"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tomi-Lahren-insists-Bad-Bunny-is-not-an-American-during.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067978","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=2067978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067980,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067978\/revisions\/2067980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}