Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Tuesday the NFL choosing Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer was a “terrible decision,” suggesting the league should have selected 82-year-old country singer Lee Greenwood instead.

Bad Bunny was revealed as the performer during halftime of last week’s Thursday Night Football game. That announcement was met with a wave of backlash from the right, with many citing the Puerto Rican rapper’s support of immigrants. He’ll soon begin a world tour excluding the United States, saying he didn’t want ICE agents to harass his fans.

On Tuesday, Johnson was asked by reporter Pablo Manriquez for his thoughts on the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.

“I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was, OK,” Johnson said, “but it sounds like a terrible decision in my view.”

Asked to elaborate further, Johnson suggested that Bad Bunny didn’t appeal to a “broader audience” and that he wasn’t a role model to “impressionable children.”

“Well, it sounds like he’s not someone who appeals to a broader audience,” Johnson continued. “And I think — you know, there’s so many eyes on the Super Bowl, a lot of young impressionable children, and I think, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood — or role models — doing that, not somebody like this.”

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