President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, says she finds it “pretty funny” that some people are “melting down” at her “joking offer” to perform at an alternative Super Bowl halftime show.
The podcaster, who is married to the president’s son, Eric Trump, offered to headline a MAGA-themed halftime show that was announced by Turning Point USA, the right-wing political group founded by slain activist Charlie Kirk. Her suggestion was in response to criticism from the right-wing over Latin singer Bad Bunny being selected as next year’s official Super Bowl halftime headliner.
“So we just heard something that’s pretty funny. I heard that there are a lot of people out there on the left who are melting down and very upset about the possibility that I might be performing at the halftime show for the Super Bowl for Turning Point USA,” she said in an Instagram video Saturday.
Bad Bunny’s vocal condemnation of Donald Trump’s increasing ICE raids and his advocacy for Puerto Rico have sparked backlash from some MAGA supporters, who also widely bemoaned that the three-time Grammy winner has no songs that are entirely in English.
The musician clapped back at the outrage during his monologue on “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month.
Claiming her initial suggestion was “clearly a comical and joking offer,” Lara Trump doubled down on her proposition, telling her nearly three million Instagram followers that it “still stands” despite the fact that she was never actually offered the opportunity.
“I’ve not been asked in any formal way to perform for the Turning Point halftime show for the Super Bowl,” she continued. “But everybody out there continues getting upset about it and freaking out about it.”
Last week, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee nominated herself to perform at the “All American Halftime Show” that is meant to rival the big-game broadcast on NBC on her “Right View With Lara Trump” podcast. She claimed she heard from “a lot of owners of NFL teams” who are heated by the selection of Bad Bunny.
“I don’t know what the heck the NFL was thinking with this one, but I can tell there are a lot of people who are not happy about it,” the political pundit said. “The great news is we don’t need the NFL. We don’t need any of these woke losers to perform, we can have our own performance, so shoutout to Turning Point for coming up with their own halftime show, I love it.”
Lara Trump, whose most-streamed track on Spotify is a cover of the 1989 tune “I Won’t Back Down,” originally performed by late rock musician Tom Petty, has just a measly 13,000 monthly listeners on Spotify compared to Bad Bunny who boasts 81.3M monthly listeners.
In 2020, her cover of the “I Won’t Back Down” stirred controversy after Petty’s family issued a cease-and-desist order to bar Donald Trump from using the song on the campaign trail. Despite that, Lara Trump went on to perform the cover at her father-in-law’s golf club in Westchester, New York, earlier this year.
