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Published On: Tue, Feb 10th, 2026

Peter Schweizer: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Is “A Clash Of Civilizations” And “A Call For A Borderless World”

“The Invisible Coup” author Peter Schweizer reacted to the Super Bowl LX halftime show hosted by Bad Bunny on Monday’s edition of FOX News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

JESSE WATTERS: The Washington Post said the show had wholesome traditional values. And that’s when you know the media’s in on it. That’s when you know there’s an agenda. When they lie straight to your face. Like, oh, yeah, Joe Biden’s healthy. Well, you watch him fall down the stairs. They did a black national anthem, a Spanish halftime act. What’s next, flipping a euro at the coin toss? Now the halftime show says press one for Kid Rock, press two for Bad Bunny. Yeah, Kid Rock, he was the Turning Point USA headliner. No subtitles needed. Six million tuned in. Who thought you could counter-program the Super Bowl with English? America’s turning 250 this year. We should be celebrating ourselves, not other countries. Peter Schweizer is the author of The Invisible Coup. I mean, I don’t want to make a huge deal out of this, but, I mean, people could feel it in their bones when they watch the halftime show, Peter. Is this a significant cultural moment? PETER SCHWEIZER: Yeah, I think it is. And that’s what people in the Latin American left are telling us. Let’s remember, Bad Bunny made a guest appearance at the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show. And there he stirred controversy when he said viva la raza, long live the race. And this was a reference to a common idea on the Latin American left called The Cosmic Race, a book that was written in Mexico almost 100 years ago. And the book basically talks about how Anglos are selfish, blacks and Asians have their flaws, but Latinos are kind of the superior race. That was the reference that he was making. If you look at the halftime show this Sunday, you see that one of the songs he sang was It Happened in Hawaii. And, Jesse, this is a song about fighting colonialism, but the colonialism are Anglo tourists. And it’s a reference to how the Anglos basically destroyed Hawaii and they’re destroying Puerto Rico as well. So a lot of his lyrics have a deep-bedded, civilizational approach that is antithetical to what the United States is and what it stands for. And I think we have to understand it as more than just a musician. This is a clash of civilizations that’s occurring. And Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, praised his performance and said the call was not for unity in the United States. The call was for unity of all the Americas, that the United States and all of Latin America should unite as one. That was the message the president of Mexico got from that performance. WATTERS: Unite as one how? I mean, we’ve already had, what, tens of millions pour in unchecked illegally and they’re not leaving. How is that unifying, unifying to Hispanics? SCHWEIZER: Yeah, well, I mean, it’s the call for a borderless hemisphere, right, that you can have the free movement of people. I will point out, Jesse, it’s ironic that in that song, It Happened to Hawaii, he’s criticizing Anglos that buy property in Puerto Rico and are taking houses from locals. So he has a problem with Anglos legally moving to Puerto Rico, but he has no problems with tens of millions of people illegally coming into the United States. So, you know, it’s not about consistency. It’s about a borderless world and allowing for the superiority of La Raza to demonstrate itself. That’s really, I think, what it’s about. And I don’t think that’s an exaggeration at all. WATTERS: Yeah, I mean, I think the flags got to a lot of people, especially the country’s feeling a little raw after the four years of Biden, when we saw all these people flags pour in and take jobs and take apartments and take welfare. And it’s like now they’re at the Super Bowl. They’re coming in with the flags and you can’t understand a word they’re saying. You know, we’re a very inviting people. We know we’re very open for immigrants. This is a country of immigrants. But it becomes where it’s like, OK, this looks like something’s going on here and everybody can feel it. But if you say something, Peter, if you say anything, you’re a bigot. And that’s kind of how they set it up. SCHWEIZER: Yeah, that’s how they frame it. Look, here’s the thing. I mean, what’s significant about the flags is not only this notion of unity, but it goes to the heart of the question of assimilation and the fact that he’s performing in Spanish. He’s not performing in English. The Latin American left does not want migrants that come to the United States to assimilate. They don’t want them to learn the language. They don’t want them to adopt American values. They call them traitors. That’s what Scheinbaum top aides call Mexicans that that that learn the language. So this is not about loving everybody. This is about a cultural clash that they hope to win.

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