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The choice of Bad Bunny as the headline act for this year's Super Bowl has drawn both praise and criticism. (Stephanie Amador / The Tennessean / USA Today)

Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, announced on social media that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026, to counter the NFL’s choice of Bad Bunny.

On the flyer shared on social media, Turning Point USA is calling the initiative “The All-American Halftime Show,” celebrating “faith, family and freedom.” The flyer says that more information and musical artists will be announced at a later time. Following Kirk’s death last month, his wife, Erika Kirk, was named CEO of Turning Point USA.

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The announcement that Bad Bunny would perform on the NFL’s biggest stage has been met with controversy as many, including the organizer behind a Change.org petition, are worried the 31-year-old Puerto Rican singer — and frequent critic of President Trump — may turn the halftime show “into a political stunt.”

The petition against Bad Bunny, who had axed all US performances in his world tour over concerns about ICE raids, went up on Oct. 1 and has already garnered more than 10,000 signatures.

5 Performers Who Make Perfect Sense to Headline Turning Point USA’s “All American Halftime Show”

The counterprogramming culture wars have begun. Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA has announced that it’s planning its own Super Bowl halftime show, in protest of the NFL’s decision to have Latin music superstar Bad Bunny headline the main event. The so-called All-American Halftime Show will take place on February 8, 2026, the same date as Super Bowl LX.

Conservatives were up in arms after it was announced that Bad Bunny—one of the biggest artists in the world, with more than 80 million Spotify listeners each month, as well as an American citizen from Puerto Rico—would be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show. Speaking to right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem threatened that ICE would be “all over that place” at the Super Bowl, which will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Noem maintained that she has every intention to “enforce the law.” House Speaker Mike Johnson called booking Bad Bunny “a terrible decision” and offered an alternative: 82-year-old country singer Lee Greenwood, who Johnson said would attract a “broader audience.” (For the record: the “God Bless the USA” singer has less than 450,000 monthly Spotify listeners, roughly 190 times less than Bad Bunny). Even President Donald Trump called Bad Bunny an “absolutely ridiculous” choice to headline the Super Bowl, despite claiming he had “never heard of him.”

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