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The Paul brothers didn’t see eye-to-eye on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 halftime show.
Older brother Jake Paul railed against the Puerto Rican singer getting to perform at halftime of the Seahawks’ 29-13 win over the Patriots at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday.
The six-time Grammy winner’s selection for the show drew criticism, as his songs are entirely in Spanish, and he made anti-ICE comments six days before the game in his Grammy Award speech.
Jake Paul, who sat with vice president JD Vance during the U.S. women’s hockey team’s game against Finland at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Saturday, spoke out during the Super Bowl.
“Purposefully turning off the halftime show,” Jake Paul wrote on X. “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 citizen performing who publicly hates America. I cannot support that.”
WWE star Logan Paul pushed back on his boxing star brother’s comments about Bad Bunny, who has also wrestled for WWE.
“I love my brother but I don’t agree with this,” Logan Paul wrote in a quoted response to his brother’s post. “Puerto Ricans are Americans & I’m happy they were given the opportunity to showcase the talent that comes from the island.”
Fellow WWE wrestler Damian Priest, who is Puerto Rican and a close friend of Bad Bunny, appreciated Logan Paul’s support of the performance.
“Very kind of you to say,” wrote Priest, who has wrestled with and against Bad Bunny, on X “You have a platform that can actually mean something to many. Thank you.”
Logan Paul, however, said “No” when asked by Fox News on the Fanatics Super Bowl Party red carpet on Saturday if he was “looking forward to the halftime show,” but Bad Bunny’s name was not mentioned in the question.
Jake Paul wasn’t the only one who was not a fan of Bad Bunny’s performance, including President Donald Trump and former NBC-sideline-reporter-turned-conservative-pundit Michelle Tafoya.
Bad Bunny, who also brought in stars Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin to help him perform during halftime of the big game, presented a message of unity to close the show.
“God bless America,” he said before listing off the countries in South and Central America and holding up a football that read, “Together we are America.”
It made good on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s belief that the artist understands the Super Bowl platform was “to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents.”
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