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Bad Bunny mocks backlash to his Super Bowl halftime gig on ‘SNL’ | |
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN | |
Updated: | |
9:02 AM EDT, Sun October 5, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Bad Bunny, el primero presentador de la nueva temporada de ‘Saturday | |
Night Live,’ tenía un mensaje para todos: “If you didn’t | |
understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.” | |
During his monologue, the musician didn’t shy away from the backlash | |
that stemmed from the recent announcement that he’d be the next . In | |
fact, he had a lot of fun with it, joking, “I think everybody’s | |
happy about it – even Fox News.” | |
What followed was a collection of short clips featuring Fox News | |
personalities, who in a spliced-together edit collectively said: “Bad | |
Bunny is my favorite musician, and he should be the next president.” | |
He then addressed the audience in Spanish, expressing his excitement | |
about doing the Super Bowl, adding, “I know that people all around | |
the world who love my music are also happy.” | |
He continued: “More than just my achievement, it’s everyone’s | |
achievement, proving that no one can ever erase or take away | |
(Latinos’) mark and our contribution to this country.” | |
That’s when he returned to speaking English, encouraging those who | |
didn’t understand his words to learn in the coming weeks. | |
Bad Bunny is fresh off a long residency of concerts solely performed in | |
Puerto Rico — he went “on tour but at home,” to New York | |
Magazine. | |
His run of shows , economists estimated. | |
His January album, “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” which was his sixth | |
solo album, has spent 38 weeks on the Billboard 200 list. | |
Despite Bad Bunny’s immense popularity, some US government officials | |
and conservative media have tried to turn his Super Bowl appearance | |
into a culture war, primarily over his . Kristi Noem, the Homeland | |
Security secretary, would be in attendance at the Super Bowl and said | |
that “people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re | |
law-abiding Americans who love this country.” | |
She went on to issue a tirade about the NFL itself: “Well, they suck | |
and we’ll win, and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud | |
of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep | |
at night because they don’t know what they believe. And they’re so | |
weak, we’ll fix it.” | |
President Donald Trump — who has served himself as host of | |
“Saturday Night Live” twice prior to his time in office — has | |
complained about the show for years. Questions about whether his | |
administration would try to take action against the late-night show at | |
some point have started to swirl after it recently targeted Jimmy | |
Kimmel. | |
That speculation did little to deter “SNL” from having James Austin | |
Johnson reprise his role as Trump in the Season 51 cold open in a | |
sketch that also featured Weekend Update host Colin Jost as Secretary | |
of Defense Pete Hegseth. | |
“I’m just here keeping my eye on ‘SNL,’ making sure they | |
don’t do anything too mean about me, and they better be careful | |
because I know late-night TV like the back of my hand,” Johnson as | |
Trump said, holding up a . | |
He added at the end, “daddy’s watching.” | |
Next week on “SNL,” presumably: Amy Poehler and musical guest Role | |
Model. And then, on October 18, Sabrina Carpenter does double duty as | |
host and musical guest. | |
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