The White House didn’t wait around to be lectured on patriotism. Ahead of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime spectacle — widely viewed as another celebrity middle finger to America — the administration dropped a pointed video reminding the country of something the cultural elites hate to hear: this nation is “unapologetically American.”
The video was uploaded to X approximately 20 minutes before Mr. Bunny’s performance, kicking off with the bold statement, “We don’t do subtle,” and it certainly lives up to that claim.
What follows is a fast-paced montage featuring fighter jets, Trump rallies, executive order signings, and a display of patriotic fervor, including appearances from Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The opening scene shows two fans of the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots distracted by Air Force One flying overhead. The camera then shifts to a different location, capturing the President’s plane in action. “We choose bold,” the narrator states before a pilot reports, “for the first time in history, flying over the Gulf of America.”
The video doesn’t let up one iota.
“We don’t limit our ambition, never have,” the narrator continues. “We build big. We move fast. We bet on ourselves. We don’t apologize for winning. We say what we mean and stand by it.”
Then Rubio says, Rubio chimes in by informing viewers, “If you don’t know, now you know.”
“We are fully, proudly, and unapologetically American,” the narrator concludes.
Bunny doubled down with a halftime performance delivered almost entirely in Spanish — a choice that landed just weeks after Donald Trump signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.
He then went further, declaring that mostly Latin American countries are, “Together, we are America.” That line may play well to activists, but it’s wrong on both geography and patriotism — and it read unmistakably like an endorsement of open borders dressed up as cultural unity.
The response from the White House was swift and unapologetic. Its counter-video didn’t argue: Eat it, Benito.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio sparked controversy ahead of his Super Bowl performance when he expressed reluctance to tour in the United States. He cited concerns that some of his fans might face deportation if they were discovered to be undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
Most reasonable people would likely welcome the idea of distancing any offenders from his audience.
“There was the issue of — like, (expletive) ICE could be outside my concert,” he instead whined in an interview with Variety. “It was something we were very concerned about.”
He also declined to stand for “God Bless America” during a Yankees game in October. So, it was no surprise when the National Football League chose to bring him in to “bring people together.” (The owners need to fire Goodell, period, and send him and his woke BS packing, by the way.)
The NFL offered someone the biggest annual spotlight on the planet who gave America the middle finger. Fortunately, Turning Point USA gave us artists who sang about the greatness of our nation and urged people to dust off their Bibles.
Unapologetically American, it was.