Nick Fuentes on Turning Point USA's halftime show: “What the fuck was that? I mean, if that's the best we have to offer, honestly, I'm switching sides”
Fuentes: “The Bad Bunny halftime show, let’s be perfectly honest, it wasn’t a militantly woke show. … The way that conservatives were fearmongering and creating this anxiety about this halftime show. … It’s not what it was.”
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From the February 9, 2026, edition of America First, streamed on Rumble
NICK FUENTES (HOST): We have to talk about the halftime show. We can't talk about it without also discussing the Kid Rock thing that was going on somewhere else. What the fuck was that? I mean, if that's the best we have to offer, honestly, I'm switching sides.
If that's -- seriously, they said, “This is the all-American halftime show. God, family and” -- It's like, OK, if that’s the all-American halftime show, I don't know guys. We're losing them. You know, we got to come up with something better because that was a tough watch.
If it is a requirement to pretend to like that to be like a patriot, like I can't do it. I'm just telling you up front. I'm going to be honest with you, full disclosure, I can't do it. I think I'd rather kill myself than pretend to like that. So you're telling me we're at the Super Bowl party with the normies, with the hoes, with the chuds, and the f------. We're at the Super Bowl watch party. We're having our taquitos. We're having our wings, pizza, watching the big game, everybody's having a good time. You're telling me we have to turn off the TV or we have to switch the input, we have to go to the Rumble app and watch some AI ad about like alternative medicine. And then we have to watch Kid Rock and this like generic country music. And we have to pretend to like this. We have to all be like, “This is really good. She's really good.”
I'm not doing that. I can't do it. It sucks. And, you know, not for nothing, didn't we do this for the RNC? Isn't this just like our token celebrity? Didn't Kid Rock play the RNC? It's just like a freak show. It's like Amber Rose was there, last year at the -- two years ago at the RNC, Kid Rock.
And I'm watching the show. I actually watch it this afternoon and I'm like, yeah, this is kind of like maybe a section of what we're about that is kind of going away and maybe there's no bringing it back. I don't know. Is there anything kind of worth hanging onto there? It's kind of a rough thing.
And I said this on Telegram and it was a little controversial, but let's be honest, the Bad Bunny halftime show, let's be perfectly honest, it wasn't a militantly woke show. It just wasn't. The way that conservatives were talking about it, I thought it was going to be drag queen story hour. The way that conservatives were fearmongering and creating this anxiety about this halftime show. They're like, “It's going to be an anti-ICE, anti-Trump, they're going to burn the American flag, he's going to be cross-dressing.” It's not what it was.