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Sunday, February 8, 2026 12:47PM
It's a large play for Bad Bunny fans! Gov. Gavin Newsom has present declared Super Bowl Sunday "Bad Bunny Day" successful California up of his halftime show successful the Bay Area.
He made the announcement connected X, wherever Newsom praised the Puerto Rican creator portion besides trolling President Donald Trump.
Newsom has been imitating the president's societal media penning style successful the past fewer months, including his station astir Bad Bunny.
"As galore radical know, I americium a tremendous person of 'the Spanish.' It is simply a beauteous connection spoken by galore beauteous radical successful the large authorities of California and crossed the world. I americium besides a immense instrumentality of Puerrrrrrrto Rico," Newsom wrote. "That is wherefore I americium declaring time successful California arsenic 'Bad Bunny Day,' erstwhile Bad Bunny performs astatine the large crippled successful the Golden State with his soothing, beauteous voice, and his precise bully looks."
The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks volition look disconnected successful Super Bowl LX connected Sunday astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California.
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar calved Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is 1 of the most-streamed artists connected the planet. He volition instrumentality the Super Bowl signifier conscionable 1 week aft helium won medium of the twelvemonth astatine the 2026 Grammys for "Debí Tirar Más Fotos." It's the first clip an all-Spanish-language album has taken location the apical prize.
He has faced large disapproval from the president and his followers aft being named the Super Bowl halftime performer. Turning Point USA is hosting an alternative Super Bowl halftime show called "The All-American Halftime Show," with Kid Rock acceptable to headline.
Bad Bunny utilized 1 of his speeches astatine the Grammys past play to amplify his disapproval of migration enforcement successful the country.
"Before I accidental acknowledgment to God, I'm gonna say: ICE out," Bad Bunny said to a lasting ovation with roaring applause portion accepting the grant for champion música urbana album. "We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans."
"The hatred gets much almighty with much hate. The lone happening that is much almighty than hatred is love. So please, we request to beryllium different. If we fight, we person to bash it with love. We don't hatred them, we emotion our family. Don't hide it, that's however we bash it with love," helium added.
Bad Bunny was calved successful Puerto Rico, making him a U.S. citizen. Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory for astir 130 years.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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