When the National Football League announced last fall that global superstar Bad Bunny would be the musical headliner for this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, MAGA was MAD.
Some didn’t realize that Bad Bunny, like other Puerto Ricans, is an American citizen. Some didn’t like that he sings in Spanish. Some may have been mad that he isn’t white. And some were clearly upset because Bad Bunny is not a fan of President Donald Trump.
With MAGA activists seeing red, right-wing organizing group Turning Point USA saw an opportunity. TPUSA announced that it would host a competing “all-American” half-time show. It posted a poll asking what people wanted to hear, which included the options “Anything in English” and “worship music.”
When the group finally announced its lineup, headed by MAGA musician Kid Rock, TPUSA promised “a pure celebration of faith, family and freedom.”
It seems that for MAGA-minded Christian nationalists like the people running TPUSA, being in favor of faith, family, and freedom, really just means being pro-Trump.
Kid Rock is not exactly someone whose body of work could be called pure or pro-family. His music relies heavily on profanity, and as some people have pointed out, his song “Cool, Daddy Cool” includes, “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage, see. Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory).” Those lines appeared in the soundtrack of a kids’ movie, “Osmosis Jones.”
Nice timing with the sickening revelations in the Epstein files that the Trump regime was forced to release.
“We the People,” one of Kid Rock’s MAGA anthems, starts with the memorable line, “We the people, in all we do, reserve the right to scream ‘FUCK YOU’ – something Kid Rock does throughout the song at familiar MAGA targets like the mainstream media.
In a song about turning 50, he sings, “I might be fucking 50, but I still don’t give one fuck…I might be fucking 50, but this dick’s still long and lean.” In another song he sings about putting his balls in people’s mouths.
In 2019, he dismissed Taylor Smith with a tweet suggesting that she would “suck the doorknob off Hollyweird” to get into movies.
So we’re not sure that parents who are worried about their children being corrupted by Bad Bunny are going to appreciate TPUSA turning their kids on to Kid Rock.
