Turning Point USA, the group of the late ultraconservative leader Charlie Kirk, an ally of President Donald Trump, announced that Kid Rock and other country singers will hold a concert as a 'patriotic alternative' to Bad Bunny's halftime show at Super Bowl LX next Sunday. 'I think it's a great choice, and I believe he will have a great performance,' the commissioner confided. 'The lineup for the all-American halftime show is here. I think it's a terrible choice. All he does is sow hatred. Terrible,' Trump said from the Oval Office to The New York Post in an interview published on January 24. 'He understands that the Super Bowl platform is a platform for unity,' said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. 'He understands that the Super Bowl platform serves to unite people with his creativity and talent, and he must seize this moment to do so. Artists in the past have done it. Look at Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett this Sunday,' Turning Point USA reported on its social networks. The concert, for which more artists and details will be revealed, will be broadcast at the same time as Bad Bunny's show on Turning Point USA's social media and on conservative channels such as OAN News, Real America's Voice, TBN, NTD and The National News Desk, the event's official website pointed out. The MAGA show parallel to the Super Bowl Kirk's organization, killed on September 10 at a university event in Utah, had announced the concert in October after Trump's criticisms and sectors of the MAGA movement against Bad Bunny for singing in Spanish, although he is a US citizen because he is Puerto Rican. With the show, whose location is not yet public, the conservative group promises to celebrate 'faith, family, and freedom.' The alternative halftime artists are announced a day after Bad Bunny's historic Grammy win, as his album 'DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS' became the first all-Spanish album to be crowned album of the year on Sunday. In addition, the artist reiterated his criticisms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which will carry out operations next Sunday in Santa Clara, California, during the game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks.
Concert as an Alternative to the Super Bowl
A conservative group organizes a concert with Kid Rock as an alternative to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show. Trump criticizes the choice of the singer, while the NFL states that Bad Bunny is using the platform to unite people. The conflict escalates amidst political and cultural controversy.