Jimmy Kimmel roasts Donald Trump over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show

Super Bowl 2026 is over, at least for this year. However, the commentary on the halftime show, headlined by Bad Bunny, is far from wrapped up.

After US President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to express his “thoughts” on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has now joined the conversation.

What happened?

The whole thing started when Bad Bunny took over Levi’s Stadium on February 8, 2026, dropping a halftime show that broke records and made history, as he’s the first artist to headline the Super Bowl halftime show almost entirely in Spanish. The energy was wild, the choreography was on point, and big names like Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin showed up for surprise cameos. The visuals were all about unity and cultural pride. And at the end of his set, Bad Bunny held up a football that said, “Together, we are America,” while the screens behind him flashed, “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

The whole world watched in awe, with over 135 million viewers tuning in, actually. The internet called it one of the best, happiest, and most inclusive halftime shows ever.

However, the US President didn’t think so.

How Donald Trump reacted to Bad Bunny’s performance

The whole world was applauding, as the numbers are proof. Donald Trump, on the other hand, didn’t like the show one bit, and he didn’t hold back sharing his thoughts on it.

About thirty minutes after the show ended, he popped up on Truth Social, fuming. He called the halftime show “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” and said it “makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence.” He went on to claim, “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.” Trump called it a “slap in the face” to the country, and said the media would spin it positively no matter what he thought.

At the same time, Turning Point USA was streaming its own “All-American” halftime show online, and it pulled in only about five million viewers. Trump’s “thoughts” focused hard on the Spanish-language parts and wrapped his reaction in a strong dose of nationalism. The comments set off a wave of reactions, from fans to celebrities to cultural commentators.

For the unversed, it’s not the first time Trump’s shown his disapproval for Bad Bunny. The US President didn’t hide his feelings when Bad Bunny was first announced for the Super Bowl. Back then, he said, “I never heard of him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they’re doing it, it’s crazy… I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

But this time, Trump’s rant had a counter-rant as well.

Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘roasted’ response

The acclaimed late-night host, Jimmy Kimmel, didn’t waste any time sharing his response to Trump’s Truth Social rant. The night after the Super Bowl, he jumped right into Trump’s rant, reading the former president’s comments out loud and firing back with his usual mix of jokes and jabs. Kimmel called out Trump’s sudden outrage and said it probably said more about Trump than it did about Bad Bunny’s halftime show, which, as Kimmel put it, was about bringing people together and celebrating culture, not stirring up division.

Kimmel didn’t stop there. He went after the MAGA crowd for putting on their own “safe space” halftime show, mocking them as “snowflakes” who apparently needed protection from eight minutes of Spanish-language music. He kicked off his monologue by painting Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show as a classic American story: “A heartwarming story of immigrants who had dreams to come to America, work hard, get married, grow up, raise families, sing, dance, play backgammon…” But to MAGA, he joked, it was more like a scene from “28 Days Later.” The right-wing group Turning Point USA had even hosted its own halftime concert, featuring Kid Rock, who, by the way, looked like he was just lip-syncing through the whole thing.

While Trump claimed, “Nobody understands a word this guy is saying,” apparently forgetting that Bad Bunny, an American citizen from Puerto Rico, sings in Spanish, Kimmel had a field day with all of it. He put Trump’s post up on screen and deadpanned, “Bad Bunny got a bad review from our Bad President, unfortunately.” Then he let loose. He pointed out how fake the whole outrage seemed, saying if Bad Bunny had ever cozied up to Trump (like Nicki Minaj, Kanye, or the Village People), MAGA would have welcomed him with open arms. “They’d pretend to love him too,” Kimmel said. But since Bad Bunny isn’t a Trump fan, and since they knew a bunch of confused white folks would be sitting on their couches at halftime wondering what was going on, suddenly it’s a crisis.

“All the snowflakes were so upset they might have to listen to Spanish for eight minutes, they decided to make their own halftime show,” he said. He took another shot at Kid Rock, calling him “an artist whose most popular song is literally gibberish!”

However, Kimmel set the record straight in the end, saying that this whole thing wasn’t really about Kid Rock versus Bad Bunny. That idea, he argued, was just silly. “This is not Kid Rock versus Bad Bunny. I mean, think about how dumb that sounds. This is not that!”

And then he pointed out the irony: Trump, who threatened to boycott the halftime show, actually tuned in to watch Bad Bunny perform at his golf club in West Palm Beach. Kimmel laughed, “Even Donald Trump didn’t watch the Kid Rock halftime show. He watched Bad Bunny. He wanted to make sure he hated him as much as he thought he would, and he did.”Get the latest entertainment updates from the Times of India, along with the latest Hindi movies, upcoming Hindi movies in 2026 , and Telugu movies.”