Meghan McCain Under Fire For Doubling Down, Gushing Over Bad Bunny

Meghan McCain is bucking her own side over the Super Bowl halftime dust-up.

While many conservatives blasted Latin trap star Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX performance Sunday night, McCain made clear she was not among them.

In the months leading up to the game, critics on the right had voiced frustration that the Puerto Rican artist was tapped to headline. After the show, social media lit up with complaints that the set was performed almost entirely in Spanish. Some critics even suggested U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should have descended on Levi’s Stadium. Others skipped the performance altogether, opting instead to stream Turning Point USA’s alternate halftime show headlined by Kid Rock.

McCain went the other direction.

“I’m sorry but I just genuinely question your taste level if you didn’t enjoy the Bad Bunny halftime show,” she wrote Monday morning on X. “And everything in life doesn’t have to be ruined with politics.”

Been listening to nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl. Congrats to all the lunatics who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest Bad Bunny stan on the planet now.

(My favorite song is Titi Me Pregunto & NuevaYol)

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) February 11, 2026

Her post amounted to a direct rebuke of the outrage coming from conservative influencers and commentators who framed the performance as political or culturally divisive.

McCain did not elaborate further, but her comments landed as President Donald Trump and several prominent voices on the right sharply criticized the show. Trump called the performance “one of the worst ever” and said it did not represent American “standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence.”

The backlash centered largely on the language of the performance and what some viewers interpreted as political undertones. Others tied the show to broader national debates over immigration policy.

Still, McCain’s message was clear: not every cultural moment needs to be filtered through a partisan lens.

The most overtly political musical commentary of the Super Bowl weekend did not come from the halftime stage, but from a pre-game event two days earlier. At a Super Bowl party, Green Day frontman Billy Joel Armstrong criticized ICE and referenced the Jeffrey Epstein controversy during his performance.

McCain’s defense of Bad Bunny underscores an ongoing divide within conservative circles over how to respond to pop culture moments. For some, the halftime show was a cultural flashpoint. For McCain, it was just music.

Her comments sparked pushback online from conservatives who saw the show as tone-deaf or inappropriate. But others applauded her for stepping outside the usual partisan script.

Whether the halftime show will linger as a political flashpoint remains to be seen. For now, McCain has made her position clear: she enjoyed it, and she is not apologizing for that.

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