# TPUSA Halftime show featuring Kid Rock

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**Created:** [February 6, 2026, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpusa-halftime-show-featuring-kid-rock/1027422 "2026-02-06T06:20:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tpusa-halftime-show-featuring-kid-rock/1027422/303 "2026-02-12T21:14:29Z")

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Apparently, even right-wing pundits didn’t care for the TPUSA show. It was that bad.

> **[Even the Right Wasn’t So Sure About the Turning Point USA Halftime Show](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/tpusa-halftime-show-nick-fuentes-kid-rock-1236502717/)**
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> Nick Fuentes slams it while Donald Trump doesn’t comment.

And Trump apparently hasn’t commented on this show one way or the other.

Meanwhile, others on the right are in hysterics over the Bad Bunny show. They clearly didn’t watch it, and if they did they didn’t understand what they were saying, and have made insane claims about it.

> **[Republicans Have Moved Into a New, Even Dumber Phase of Bad Bunny Outrage](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/republicans-investigations-bad-bunny-super-bowl-1235515336/)**
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> Right-wing lawmakers have now called for multiple investigations into Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, calling the halftime show "pure smut."

> “The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air.” Ogles wrote. “The performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
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> Ogles claimed in a post [on X](https://x.com/RepOgles/status/2020870660755435692) that the show “depicted gay pornography” (we couldn’t find any) and that the performance was “conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state.”

And there are calls from Republican politicians to get the FCC to crack down on it.

> “This could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.”

What a fiasco for the right, though. If there is a culture war going on, they lost this battle.

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