Overview
- Bad Bunny’s 13-minute Apple Music Halftime Show at Levi’s Stadium featured Puerto Rican imagery, a roll call of Americas, and messages like “Together, we are America” and “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
- He performed primarily in Spanish with high-profile cameos including Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, alongside appearances from Cardi B, Pedro Pascal and Jessica Alba.
- President Donald Trump condemned the performance on Truth Social as “absolutely terrible,” while some public figures such as Tom Brady praised it.
- Turning Point USA’s rival All‑American Halftime Show with Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett drew a YouTube audience that peaked around 4.8 million after plans to stream on X fell through due to licensing.
- Pre-game activists distributed roughly 15,000 “ICE OUT” rally towels near the stadium, and separate reporting debunked viral claims that Bad Bunny wore a bulletproof vest at the Grammys.