Jon Stewart Slams MAGA Outrage at Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show: Calls for “Safe Space”

Jon Stewart was on fire tonight on The Daily Show, taking aim at the MAGA crowd’s overblown reaction to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Kicking off with the game itself, he quipped, “If you were hoping for a high-scoring, edge-of-your-seat game, this wasn’t it. Slow and tedious. It almost made it tough to enjoy watching the Patriots lose.”

However, the halftime show was a highlight, where “Mr. Bunny absolutely nailed it.” Stewart continued, “It was vibrant and catchy, but oh, I forgot, for a vast portion of Americans, every event has to be processed through a MAGA-specific lens and evaluated on its adherence to their conventional views, which doesn’t include knowing what a biblioteca is.”

With biting humor, Stewart started, “Is it asking too much for a halftime show that our nation can understand in English? That’s why the good folks at TPUSA put together their own All-American halftime show that glorified this wonderful country in the Queen’s English we all understand.”

The screen then showed a confusing and chaotic clip from Kid Rock’s poorly lip-synced and mostly unintelligible performance at the Turning Point USA event, with captions like “Bawitaba da-bang da-bang diggy-diggy-diggy.” Pretending to be relieved, Stewart exclaimed, “Thank you! Merriam and Webster themselves couldn’t have described the boogie’s bounce better, especially the diggy diggy diggy part being a da-bang da-bang.”

Stewart also questioned, “Why the hell is it the Super Bowl halftime performer’s responsibility to unite the country? In what universe is that their job? Doesn’t someone else have a job description more suited for that?”

Furthermore, Stewart lambasted the Republicans’ defense of President Donald Trump’s sharing of a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes. Showing a clip of Sean Spicer defending the video as not racist but rather ending on a racist note, Stewart, with a dramatic wave of his hands, countered, “If you drop the N-word at the end of a sentence, it still spoils the whole sentence. There are things in this world where it’s not about where you place them but that they’re there at all. ‘Oh, it’s not that I have gonorrhea, just the tip of my penis does. Are you really going to judge my entire penis based on the gonorrhea-infected tip? Who’s the real racist now?’”

In an evening filled with robust applause from the audience, Stewart’s closing remarks were interrupted by early clapping: “Despite all of MAGA’s self-celebration, it doesn’t seem like a movement secure in its beliefs. These folks, who dominate every branch of government, are so upset by a 20-minute Spanish performance that they need their own safe space with a halftime show alternative, where Trad Bunny sings about how he can’t even enjoy sitting in his truck and drinking beer because somewhere, a trans person exists. It’s downright pathetic—the disparity between the power you wield—and I’m not finished—and the victimhood you claim is the actual insult.”

And what’s the appropriate snack for a “frail and pathetic pity party?” Stewart joked, “Yogurt, of course,” referencing an earlier extended joke about RFK’s dietary choices (featuring “meat and ferments”).