Benny Johnson on Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: “NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude”
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From the October 1, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Let's talk about the NFL. So the NFL leadership has decided to hire a cross dressing, America-hating, ICE-hating Puerto Rican dude whose music I haven't heard any of, but his name's Bad Bunny. And, he says that he dislikes Donald Trump. He endorsed Kamala Harris. And he doesn't sing in English. But nonetheless, he's been hired as the Super Bowl halftime show in spite of the fact that he refuses to tour in America because he's so scared of ICE. He's so scared of the Homeland Security enforcement knowing that those, you know, his concerts would be a nexus for immigration enforcement. And he's probably right on that. I saw what you guys -- I saw what ICE did outside of the Gavin Newsom rally in California, and that seemed wildly effective. And so, your comments, Corey, on this. Will ICE have enforcement at the Super Bowl for the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show?
COREY LEWANDOWSKI (GUEST): Benny, there is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally, not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you. We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you. So know that that is a very real situation under this administration, which is completely contrary to how it used to be.
That said, you know, look, the NFL has been so woke for so many years. They finally decided to make a comeback. They finally had people stand up for our great national anthem. But remember, these guys — Colin Kaepernick, used to say, well, I wasn't being chosen to play in the NFL team because I was kneeling. No. You sucked. And that's why you weren't being played. You know, that's why no team want to pick you up because they're a business is the bottom line. And so here's where we are, Benny. I used to love watching NFL games. I used to love watching baseball games. And when sports got into wokeness, I stopped doing it. Now listen, I still participate in a fantasy football league with some of the guys that I've known for 25 years and, you know, want my players to win. But it's so shameful that they've decided to pick somebody who just seems to hate America so much to represent them at the halftime game. I was at the Super Bowl last year with President Trump. I had the chance to be in Louisiana in his box and watch the game and got to enjoy that. But listen, we should be trying to be inclusive and not exclusive. There are plenty of great bands and entertainment people out there who could be playing at that show that would be bringing people together and not separating them.
JOHNSON: It doesn't make any sense to me because he's Puerto Rican. So he has an American passport. So he's like — and he lives in American territory. He was born in American territory.