Is MAGA going woke? It’s a question Piers Morgan is currently floating as Trump’s fanbase continues to be outraged over Bad Bunny‘s Super Bowl Halftime Show. While the left is often accused of being political snowflakes, Morgan sees MAGA’s complete meltdown over Bad Bunny to be more or less that.
“President Trump and MAGA skillfully rode the post-woke wave as that whole joyless mindset came crashing down. The left had become the sneering, censorious ogres demanding puritanical fealty,” Morgan said on the Feb. 10 episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“Conservatives were the ones having a laugh, to quote JD Vance, as star athletes honored the Trump YMCA dance and a nation bathed in woke tears,” he continued. “Well, last year’s Super Bowl really proved the point. The ads were full of bros, burgers and bikinis. The new president got a standing ovation. But how quickly things can change. Of course, it’s difficult to maintain that renegade spirit when you’re actually in power. You have to make unpopular decisions. People realize that you can’t, in fact, please everybody all the time. And with a lot of the furious reaction to Bad Bunny’s spectacular and largely non-political halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl, it’s worth asking whether the culture is now shifting. Is MAGA becoming a bit thin-skinned, a bit sneering, a bit censorious, a bit — dare I suggest it — woke?”
Morgan even challenged one of MAGA’s most outspoken voices, Megyn Kelly. He invited the former Fox News host onto his show the day after the Super Bowl, and she proceeded to go on a tirade against Bad Bunny.
“I’m sorry, Piers, but to get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America,” Kelly said in hysterics. “Who gives a damn that we have 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States? We have 310 million who don’t speak a lick of Spanish… This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for one small group, but for the country. We don’t need a Black national anthem. We don’t need a Spanish-speaking non-English performer. And we don’t need an ICE or America hater featured as our primetime entertainment.”
Morgan fired back at Kelly that the U.S. actually does not have an official language, proving her point mute. This prompted Kelly to dramatically lambast Morgan’s home of Great Britain.
“You ceded your culture to a bunch of radical Muslims who came in and took over and now it’s gone. We’re not allowing that here,” Kelly told Morgan. “Whether it’s Hispanic, whether it’s Muslim, it’s not happening in the United States of America. That’s why President Trump was elected. And whether it’s Bad Bunny, who is American but refuses to speak English in his performances, or anybody else, we have to keep the Super Bowl, which is a quintessential American event.”
MAGA’s hatred of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime was fueled by Trump himself, who originally said it was “ridiculous” for the NFL to choose the Puerto Rican artist as its big game performer. This resulted in Turning Point USA creating an alternative halftime show headlined by Kid Rock, viewership of which (6 million real time viewers on YouTube) paled in comparison to the 128.2 million viewers who watched Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show. Trump took to social media during the big game’s second half to slam Bad Bunny.
“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Trump posted on Truth Social. “It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. 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. This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country.”