Jon Stewarthas called outDonald Trumpand his supporters who criticized Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance. He turned their argument about national unity back on them. Stewart questioned the expectation placed on entertainers and pointed directly at the president's own divisive rhetoric.
Jon Stewart blasts Donald Trump on his show
The comedy host dissected the conservative backlash to Bad Bunny's headlining performance at Super Bowl LX. After highlighting clips of talking heads calling the show divisive, Stewart zeroed in on the absurdity at the heart of the complaint.
"Why the f— is it the Super Bowl halftime entertainer's job to unify the country? In what world is that their job?" Stewart said on The Daily Show on February 9. "Oh, isn't there another person whose job description is much more along those lines?" he added.
Jon Stewart then contrasted that expectation with Donald Trump's actions on the same day. He displayed a screengrab from the president's Truth Social account. Trump had called the performance "absolutely terrible" and claimed "nobody understands a word this guy is saying."
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"Nobody?" Stewart retorted, laughing. "I love how he thinks that Bad Bunny is the one guy in the world that's fluent in Spanish," he added." You know, the right has a lot of balls complaining that Bad Bunny didn't do enough to unify this country, when you only found out a few days ago that Puerto Rico is a part of it," Stewart added.
The host didn't stop there. Stewart offered a "unifying pro tip" for Trump's supporters. "Tell your guy to stop tweeting out racist slop during — I don't know — Black History Month," he said. This was a reference to a recently deleted racist post depicting the Obamas as primates that appeared on Trump's Truth Social, which the president's team blamed on a staffer.
Stewart also took aim at the alternative Turning Point USA halftime show, which ran concurrently and featured Kid Rock. He dismissed it as "an old man in acid-washed shorts badly lip-sync[ing] his way through a pre-taped" performance. On the other hand, Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX Halftime Show emphasized the message of love and has already surpassed 50 million views.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu forMandatory.
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