Bad Bunny: The only thing more powerful than hate is love. Trump: Hold my beer

I didn’t understand a word that Bad Bunny had to say in last night’s Super Bowl halftime show, but it was visually stunning, and a massive middle-finger salute to Trump’s America.

Ergo, I loved it.

Doing my job as a journalist, I also made it a point to tune in a couple of times on my phone to the so-called “All American” halftime show put on by the Charlie Kirk vanity project.

Kid Rock in jorts, lip-syncing, forgetting half the words.

Seriously, that’s the best they could do.

And actually, gotta correct myself here – I did understand the salsa number featuring Lady Gaga, but whatever the words were for the rest of it, expression is a universal language, and there was plenty being expressed in the extravaganza.

The show was an homage to Latin culture, which makes up 20 percent of the U.S. population, so, yeah, “a slap in the face to our country,” in the words of Donald Trump – if he, indeed, actually typed those words out, for the post on his social media curiously time-stamped at exactly 9:00 p.m. ET Sunday.

Sure, that one wasn’t pre-written and -posted for him by Stephen Miller, who, shocker, didn’t spontaneously combust during the halftime show.

Yeah, that’s a shame.

Among the poignant moments:

• Bad Bunny crashed through the ceiling of a living room to a father and son watching the vocalist’s “ICE Out” speech at The Grammys, then gave the kid one of his Grammys.
• There was an actual live wedding, which began with a redo of the proposal, then the exchange of vows, the kiss, and a reception.
• The show ended with Bad Bunny holding up a football featuring the message “Together We Are America,” in front of the massive video scoreboard with its own message: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

I can see why this would trigger MAGAs, who fervently waved placards at the 2024 Republican convention with the message “Mass Deportation Now,” and are still on Team Concentration Camp even now as White folks are beginning to become the targets of the secret police.

The only problem I’ve got is with myself, for taking French and Latin in high school and college; fat lot of good that’s doing for me now.

I’m not a high-culture guy, but the thought struck as I watching last night – people go to the opera, right, and they don’t sing the opera in English.

For that matter, Kid Rock, drunk and stoned out of his gourd, lip-synching to “Bawitdaba,” not sure that’s English, either.