Oct. 12, 2025

Trump takes on Bad Bunny

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From Washington, where “I don’t know him” is the new foreign policy, Patrick Gutfield unpacks Trump’s hilarious denial of knowing who global megastar Bad Bunny is—right before calling his Super Bowl halftime show “absolutely ridiculous.” Meanwhile, ICE and Kristi Noem threaten to turn the big game into Operation Tailgate, the Treasury plans to mint an actual Trump coin that may or may not be illegal, and insiders reveal the president’s insomnia is now a workplace hazard for everyone within Wi-Fi range.

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Callaroga Shark Media from Washington, DC, where I like it.

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This is Vallot. That's right. Bad Bunny is playing the

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super Bowl and apparently someone doesn't like it. Let's hit this.

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I'm Patrick Gutfield and President Donald Trump has shared his

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thoughts on Bad Bunny headlining the twenty twenty six Super

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Bowl halftime show, and spoiler alerts he's not thrilled about it.

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Appearing on news Max's Greg Kelly Reports, Trump was asked

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about the NFL's choice. Greg Kelly doing his best out

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of frame, the question said, the NFL just chose the

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Bad Bunny Rabbit or whatever his name is. This guy

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who hates ice, he doesn't like you. He accuses everything

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he doesn't like of racism. Trump's response was like, immediate

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and definitive. I've never heard of him. I don't know

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who he is now. Bad Bunny is a three time

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Grammy winner and one of the most streamed artists on

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the planet. But sure, total mystery who this guy is.

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Then again, Trump didn't just stop it. Not knowing him,

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he had opinions anyway, I don't know why they're doing it.

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Trump said, it's crazy, and then they blame it on

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some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think

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it's absolutely ridiculous, so to recap, never heard of him,

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don't know who he is, but also it's absolutely ridiculous

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that he was chosen. It's the presidential equivalent of I

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haven't read the book, but one star. Kelly also helpfully

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noted that Bad Bunny does not seem like a unifying

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entertainer and a lot of folks don't even know who

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he is, which is an interesting take considering Bad Bunny's

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last album debut at number one on the Billboard two

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hundred and he's performed to sold out stadiums worldwide. But yeah,

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very niche artist, really underground. After the halftime show announcement,

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Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski announced that ICE will be in

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attendance at the game. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome backed

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the up, insisting that ICE agents would be all over

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the super Bowl. So that's the vibe we're going for, nothing,

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says entertainment spectacle like heavily publicized immigration enforcement operations. So

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here we are. The President doesn't know who Bad Bunny is,

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but thinks choosing him is ridiculous. Ic agents are being

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promised at the game like they're part of the entertainment lineup,

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and Bad Bunny is preparing to perform for what will

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likely be one of the largest audiences in television history,

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while half of Washington announces they've never heard of him.

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The super Bowl is in February. That gives everyone plenty

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of time to google Bad Bunny and find out that, yes,

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he's actually quite famous. Or they could just keep insisting

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they have no idea who he is while simultaneously being

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very upset about his halftime show. That works too. The

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Treasury Department announced that they're planning to mint a one

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dollar commemorative coin featuring President Trump's face, set to roll

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out in twenty twenty six. And before you ask, no,

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this is not a joke. This is real. The United

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States government is actually going to make legal tender with

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Donald Trump on it. Now, you might be thinking, wait,

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isn't there a law against putting living people on currency,

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And you would be correct. There is an eighteen sixty

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six law that says only deceased people can appear on

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US money, specifically to avoid making America look like a monarchy.

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But apparently someone at Treasury read that and thought, yeah,

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but what if we just didn't follow that law, the

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coin would feature Trump's profile on the headside and on

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the tail side. And I want to be very clear

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that I am not making this up. It shows Trump

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with his fist raised in front of an American flag

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with the words fight, Fight, Fight above it. So we've

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gone from in God we trust to fight, fight Fight.

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That's quite a pivot for our national currency. The justification

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here is the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of twenty twenty,

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which allows the Treasury to mint come memorative coins for

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the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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The coins are supposed to have designs emblematic of the

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US Semiquin Centennial, and apparently nothing says celebrating two hundred

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fifty years of democracy quite like putting the current president's

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face on money. Here's where it gets even better. That

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same twenty twenty law explicitly states that no portrait of

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a living person may be included in the design. So

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the law they're using to justify making the coin is

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also the law that forbids them from making the coin.

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That's not a loophole, that's just ignoring what's written down.

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Throughout the year, Trump's allies in Congress have introduced bills

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to rename Dulles Airport after him, carve his face into

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Mount Rushmore, and make his birthday a federal holiday. One

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proposal wanted to put him on the one hundred dollar bill.

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Another wanted to create a two hundred and fifty dollars

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bill just so they could put his face on that too.

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It's gotten to the point where you can't tell if

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these are legislative proposals or the wish list, Sannah So.

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CNN's Caitlin Collins was on a podcast last week talking

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about what it's like to travel with President Trump, and

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apparently the biggest challenge isn't the security, It isn't the logistics.

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It isn't even the fact that you're trapped on a

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plane with no escape. No, the real problem is that

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the man simply refuses to sleep. According to Collins, Trump

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aids have told her that the President will actually wake

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up staffers in the middle of the night because he

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wants to chat. Just imagine that you finally drift off

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after a sixteen hour workday and then at three in

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the morning, there's a knock on your door. Because the

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President thought of something he needs to tell you right now.

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Colin says when she talks to sources about joining Trump

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on Air Force One for long trips, they basically treat

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it like jury duty. You never want to be on

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Air Force one on a trip, one told her, which

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is wild because for most people, riding on Air Force

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one sounds pretty cool. But when you realize you're essentially

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locked in a flying office with someone who treats sleep

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like it's optional, Suddenly that Southwest middle seat doesn't look

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so bad. And here's the thing, this isn't just affecting

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his immediate staff. Collins mentioned that when her podcast co

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host visited Fox News Studios recently, a producer there said, quote,

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none of us are sleeping because the president doesn't sleep.

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We're all working two times right now. So Trump's insambia

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has somehow become contagious across the entire news cycle. He's

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not sleeping, so his staff can't sleep, and now apparently

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the people covering his staff can't sleep either. Portions of

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