‘I’m Laughing Already!’ CNN’s Jake Tapper Roasts Pro-Trump Influencer Over Brutal Bad Bunny Gaffe

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pointed and laughed at a brutal gaffe from Trump fan Tomi Lahren over music superstar Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl appearance.

Supporters of President Donald Trump were outraged at the news that Bad Bunny will headline this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, ostensibly because of the rapper’s vocal criticism and activism around Trump’s deportation force.

On Friday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Tapper got a yuge kick out of a Lahren boner that caused Krystal Ball to remind her that Puerto Rico is “part of America, dear”:

TAPPER: And, Maria, there have been some people on the right who have expressed anger of the NFL’s — Bad Bunny is famously a Trump critic.

MARIA CARDONA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Uh-huh.

TAPPER: I want you to listen to what Fox contributor Tomi Lahren said on a recent podcast with — I’m laughing already, sorry — with Crystal Ball.

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TOMI LAHREN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Do you think Bad Bunny is a good choice for the Super Bowl?

CRYSTAL BALL, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It seems fine, and I don’t know why it’s a big deal, seems like a great American artist, so. Sure, why not?

LAHREN: He’s not an American artist, but —

BALL: He’s Puerto Rican. That’s part of America, dear.

LAHREN: Yeah. You don’t think — you have any problem with him saying like the ICE is — well, I’m sure you don’t — motherf-ers and sons of (EXPLETIVE DELETED). And that he’s not going to perform here.

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TAPPER: I got to give Tony credit for immediately going to the next thing, having completely botched the fact that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, what was your reaction to that?

CARDONA: I mean, my first reaction was she needs to crack a book. And I think it is important that we’re talking about this, Jake, because a lot of people don’t understand that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. So Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

Bad Bunny is an American citizen. And so, the pride on the island right now and the pride across not just Puerto Rican communities, Jake, but Latino communities in general is immense. To have Bad Bunny be headlining such an incredibly huge global event like the Super Bowl I think is incredible, especially at a time when communities are fearful. And I think, you know, he made the decision, as you may know, for his global tour, he had no dates in the United States because —

TAPPER: In the mainland United States.

CARDONA: On the mainland United States.

TAPPER: Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

CARDONA: That is true. And he had a 30-day residency there. You’re right about that.

And by the way, ICE did show up in — during his shows.

TAPPER: Is that right?

CARDONA: Yes. And that that was a big issue. So, he did not want to have that happen for the Latino communities here in the United States.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.