Trump party “boycott” talk gets wrecked by a clip showing Bad Bunny on the big screens
WASHINGTON — A viral clip posted by the account PatriotTakes is fueling a fresh online pile-on after it appeared to show Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance playing on large screens inside a Trump golf club Super Bowl party — even as allies on the right promoted a separate “All-American” alternative halftime show.
Footage from inside Trump’s golf club Super Bowl party reveals the Bad Bunny half time show played on the big screens.
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 9, 2026
What a bunch of hypocrites. pic.twitter.com/hF5scOGYek
PatriotTakes claimed: “Footage from inside Trump’s golf club Super Bowl party reveals the Bad Bunny half time show played on the big screens. What a bunch of hypocrites.”
The clip’s exact time and full context can’t be confirmed from the short video alone, but it spread quickly across platforms and was amplified by major anti-Trump accounts, including The Lincoln Project, which reposted it with commentary. The moment landed because it undercut a parallel conservative push to redirect viewers away from the NFL broadcast at halftime.
That counter-programming effort came from Turning Point USA, which promoted its own “All-American Halftime Show” featuring Kid Rock. But TPUSA acknowledged shortly before game time that it could not stream the show on X due to what it described as “licensing restrictions,” telling viewers to watch on YouTube instead.
UPDATE: Due to licensing restrictions, we are unable to stream The All-American Halftime Show on X.
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) February 8, 2026
Head on over to our YouTube channel tonight around 8PM ET to watch the full show 🇺🇸
The Super Bowl halftime show itself became political almost immediately. Reuters reported that President Donald Trump criticized Bad Bunny’s halftime performance in a social media post, calling it “absolutely terrible.” Entertainment outlets also reported Trump’s broader complaints about the show’s style and language, as the performance leaned heavily into Spanish-language music and Puerto Rican culture.
Bad Bunny headlined the halftime show in Santa Clara, California, bringing out high-profile guests and delivering a set that, depending on who you ask, was either a landmark cultural moment or proof the NFL has “gone woke.” That split is exactly what TPUSA tried to capitalize on with its alternative production — and exactly why the PatriotTakes clip hit so hard online.
For critics, the argument is simple: if Trump-world influencers were truly boycotting the halftime show, why was it playing in the room? For supporters, the response is that watching the broadcast doesn’t equal endorsing it — and that the bigger story is what they see as the NFL’s values fight. Either way, the clip turned a halftime culture-war into a new “caught on camera” moment that’s now ricocheting across social media.
