The White Home formally reacted to the information of Latin world celebrity Dangerous Bunny being named because the 2026 Tremendous Bowl halftime performer throughout a Friday press briefing.
When requested in regards to the announcement, which has sparked criticism from conservatives, White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt demurred on divulging President Donald Trump’s ideas in regards to the leisure collection of Dangerous Bunny, actual title Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
“I do know there are lots of on this room who’re very anxious to listen to the president’s response to Dangerous Bunny being the halftime present performer,” stated Leavitt. She added, “I gained’t get forward of him. I gained’t reveal what he feels about this. Subsequent time you all ask him a query, you’re welcome to do this.”
The Trump spokesperson famous that she has her “personal emotions” in regards to the Puerto Rican Grammy Award-winning artist acting at subsequent 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl, including, “That’s not what I’m up right here to speak about.”
Leavitt did, nevertheless, make clear whether or not or not ICE brokers could be stationed exterior the Levi’s Stadium in California, after Trump Homeland Safety advisor Corey Lewandowski appeared to threaten their presence on the Tremendous Bowl.
“There’s nowhere that you could present secure haven to individuals on this nation illegally. Not the Tremendous Bowl and nowhere else. We are going to discover you. We are going to apprehend you. We are going to put you in a detention facility, and we’ll deport you. So know that that may be a very actual state of affairs underneath this administration,” Lewandowski stated on a podcast on Wednesday.
The White Home press secretary informed reporters Friday that there’s presently no “tangible plan” to ship ICE brokers to the Tremendous Bowl. Nonetheless, she emphasised that normal ICE operations would proceed as common.
“Nonetheless, in fact, this administration is all the time going to arrest and report unlawful immigrants once we discover them. They’re criminals,” she stated.
Lewandowski scoffed at Dangerous Bunny being named because the Tremendous Bowl halftime performer after the celebrity excluded america from his world tour due to the Trump administration’s immigration insurance policies, which has included the detainment and deportation of undocumented immigrants.
“It’s so shameful that they’ve determined to select anyone who simply appears to hate America a lot to signify them on the halftime (present),” stated Lewandowski.
In June, Dangerous Bunny known as a bunch of ICE brokers “sons of b—–s” in Spanish. Explaining his determination to exclude the U.S., he stated, “There was the difficulty of — like, f—ing ICE may very well be exterior (my live performance)…it’s one thing that we have been speaking about and really involved about.”
