Boxer and WWE superstar Logan Paul disagrees with his brother Jake Paul’s take that rapper Bad Bunny is a “fake American” and should not have been allowed to perform at Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Jake wrote on X that he was “purposely turning off” the Super Bowl halftime show, as he wasn’t on board with “a fake American” like Bunny being supported by corporations.
“Let’s rally together and show big corporations they can’t just do whatever they want without consequences (which equals viewership for them),” he wrote. “You are their benefit. Realize you have power.
“Turn off this halftime. A fake American citizen performing who publicly hates America. I cannot support that.”
Let’s rally together and show big corporations they can’t just do whatever they want without consequences
(which equals viewership for them)
You are their benefit. Realize you have power.
Turn off this halftime. A fake American
Logan Paul Defends Bad Bunny
However, Logan Paul passionately disagreed with his brother’s post on X.
“I love my brother but I don’t agree with this,” wrote the WWE performer.
“Puerto Ricans are Americans & I’m happy they were given the opportunity to showcase the talent that comes from the island.”
Besides Jake Paul, scores of other celebrities expressed their displeasure about Bad Bunny being the headliner at the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi’s Stadium. That list includes U.S. President Donald Trump, who wrote on Truth Social that Bunny’s performance was “a slap in the face” to the country.
“It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,” Trump wrote. “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.”
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According to the BBC, Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was viewed by some as “one big love letter to his native Puerto Rico” and “an appeal for unity with the US.” While the concert was entirely in Spanish, he did say “God bless America” towards the end of the show, before listing out all the nations of Central, South, and North America.
The show ended with Bunny holding the slogan, “Together, We Are America.”
Perhaps Logan Paul felt the need to defend Bad Bunny, who, much like him, took his talents to a WWE ring in recent years. Bunny made waves with his performance against Damian Priest at the 2023 Backlash PLE in his native land of Puerto Rico. After the match, Priest praised Bunny for truly committing to the grind of being a WWE wrestler.
“I didn’t work here before, when the celebrities were that way, the negative way, but I’ve heard stories. But now when I say, for instance, Bad Bunny, when we first teamed for WrestleMania and his first WrestleMania as well,” Priest said, via TJR Wrestling.
“I remember in the lead up to that, Randy Orton going up to him out of the blue and just thanking him for treating the business how it should be treated and taking it seriously and putting in the work and actually being in it to help, not just to promote, and I was standing there and I was like, man, that’s crazy high praise coming from like Randy Orton.”
Other WWE legends such as The Undertaker, Triple H and Randy Orton have also praised Bad Bunny for making a commitment to WWE instead of viewing it as a hobby.
Logan Paul Sounds off on ‘Fake American’ Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show