Megyn Kelly’s recent rant about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show has garnered a lot of attention from people online who think her behavior was “unhinged.” One professor in American studies called her reaction to the performance a “crazy spectacle.”
During an appearance on Monday on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Kelly unleashed on Bad Bunny’s electrifying performance at the big game on Sunday, expressing her extreme frustration that the Puerto Rican global superstar was chosen to headline the show in the first place. She told host Piers Morgan that Bad Bunny performing in Spanish was a “middle finger to the rest of America.”
“This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country. Not for the Latinos,” Kelly said, while emphasizing the word “Latinos” in a derogatory and mocking tone. “Not for one small group, but for the country. We don’t need a Black national anthem. We don’t need a Spanish-speaking, non-English performer, and we don’t need an ICE or America-hater featured as our primetime entertainment.”
Kelly and Morgan then engaged in a back-and-forth over whether English is the official national language of America, with Kelly eventually acknowledging that there’s only been efforts to “make it an official documented thing.” (Last year, Trump signed an executive order to designate English as the country’s official language, though experts have viewed this order as being largely symbolic. Spanish is the most commonly spoken non-English language in America.)
