Public figurePolitical leaning: LiberalProfile last reviewed: 2026-07-29
Bad Bunny
Musician; Super Bowl LX halftime headliner
Puerto Rico first, en español, no translation offered: the world's biggest pop star treats ICE as the villain, colonialism as the wound, and the Super Bowl as a protest stage.
Bad Bunny spent 2025 refusing to tour the United States — he told i-D he feared ICE raids outside his own shows — then conquered it from the inside anyway: the first Spanish-language Album of the Year Grammy, an 'ICE out' acceptance speech, and a Super Bowl LX halftime show that Trump called 'a slap in the face to our country' while House Republicans demanded an FCC probe. The receipts run one direction — helping topple Gov. Rosselló in 2019, honoring a murdered trans woman on network TV in 2020, endorsing Harris after the 'floating island of garbage' joke, bankrolling Puerto Rico's independence-aligned opposition. Yet he is the rare culture-war lightning rod without a US ballot: as a Puerto Rico resident, he cannot vote for president at all.
Basis for the leaning assessment
Editorial estimate. He endorsed Harris in 2024 and independence-aligned Juan Dalmau in Puerto Rico, and his anti-ICE advocacy has made him a Democratic favorite (YouGov: 78% of Democrats view him favorably vs 70% of Republicans unfavorably). He holds no US party registration — Puerto Rico residents cannot vote in presidential elections.
Current Stances
Stances are editorial interpretations, always shown with the statements and actions they rest on.
Immigration & Bordersobserved 2025-09-11 – 2026-02-08
ICE raids are terrorizing his own fans — he skipped US arenas over raid fears and shouts 'ICE out' from award stages.
Bad Bunny left the US off his 2025–26 world tour because he feared ICE would stake out his venues, then used the Grammys and Super Bowl LX to insist Latino immigrants are 'humans and Americans.' It is the defining political stance of his superstardom era.
Supporting statements & actions (3)
2025-09-11Interview
There was the issue that... ICE could be outside (my concert venue). And it's something that we were talking about and very concerned about.
Explaining to i-D magazine why his Debí Tirar Más Fotos world tour included no US dates; he suggested US fans travel to his Puerto Rico residency instead. Date is the CNN article date.
The world's biggest touring act skipping the US over immigration enforcement made global headlines; Trump allies later vowed ICE agents would be present at his Super Bowl show.
2026-02-01Speech
Before I say, 'Thank God,' I'm going to say, 'ICE out.' We're not savage. We're not animals. We're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.
Accepting Best Música Urbana Album at the 2026 Grammys, the same night Debí Tirar Más Fotos became the first Spanish-language album to win Album of the Year.
Goals
Short-term
Make Spanish unignorable in US pop culture
ActiveTake Spanish-language music to every mainstream summit — SNL, a historic Album of the Year Grammy, the Super Bowl — without translating himself: as he told SNL viewers about his halftime show, 'you have four months to learn.'
Declared: 2025-10-04
Long-term
Keep Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans
ActiveFight the displacement and gentrification of the island — the through-line of Debí Tirar Más Fotos and his 30-show 'No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí' San Juan residency, which pumped an estimated $200M+ into the local economy instead of touring the US mainland.
Declared: 2025-09-11Source ↗
Break the two-party grip on Puerto Rico
ActivePush the island past the PNP–PPD duopoly toward self-determination, backing the independence-aligned Alianza with his fame and roughly $500,000 in billboards; after its 2024 loss he said he still has hope.
Declared: 2024-11-03Source ↗
Consistency Tracker
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Tension
Earlier statement / action
2025-09-11Interview
There was the issue that... ICE could be outside (my concert venue). And it's something that we were talking about and very concerned about.
Explaining to i-D magazine why his Debí Tirar Más Fotos world tour included no US dates; he suggested US fans travel to his Puerto Rico residency instead. Date is the CNN article date.
The world's biggest touring act skipping the US over immigration enforcement made global headlines; Trump allies later vowed ICE agents would be present at his Super Bowl show.
Later statement / action
2026-02-08Action
Headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show as the first Latino solo artist to top the bill, performing almost entirely in Spanish.
Trump called the show 'absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!' and 'a slap in the face' to the country; Rep. Randy Fine urged the FCC to review the broadcast, which reportedly found no indecency violation.
The most politicized halftime show in memory: GOP congressmen demanded an FCC probe, YouGov found satisfaction split sharply along party lines, and Bad Bunny wiped his ~52.8M-follower Instagram days later.
Most-Cited Sources from Voterscommunity reading list
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- 1Liberal 6Conservative 4
- 2Liberal 6Conservative 3
- 3www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bad-bunny-grammys-speech-ice-out-1235509295 ↗
Cited by 7 voters
Liberal 5Conservative 2
Most-Discussed Moments
The statements and actions that set social media on fire — top 6, in chronological order. Every entry links to its source.
- 2019-07-17Action
Paused his European tour to fly home and join mass protests demanding Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's resignation over the 'Telegramgate' chat scandal, releasing the protest anthem 'Afilando los Cuchillos' with Residente and iLe the same day he marched on the Capitol in San Juan.
Leaked chats showed Rosselló's inner circle mocking hurricane victims in misogynistic and homophobic terms; the governor resigned within two weeks of the protests.
The 'Ricky Renuncia' movement became a rare case of pop stars helping force out a sitting governor, with Bad Bunny's protest song serving as its soundtrack.
- 2020-02-27Action
Performed 'Ignorantes' on The Tonight Show wearing a skirt and a T-shirt reading 'They killed Alexa, not a man in a skirt' (translated from Spanish), protesting the killing of Puerto Rican transgender woman Alexa Negrón Luciano days earlier.
Puerto Rican media had initially described the victim as 'a man dressed as a woman'; the shirt directly rebuked that framing.
Widely shared as a landmark trans-rights statement from inside reggaeton, a genre long criticized for machismo, and it cemented his gender-norm-breaking image.
Timeline of Statements & Actions7 records, newest first
2026-02-08Action
Headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show as the first Latino solo artist to top the bill, performing almost entirely in Spanish.
Trump called the show 'absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!' and 'a slap in the face' to the country; Rep. Randy Fine urged the FCC to review the broadcast, which reportedly found no indecency violation.
The most politicized halftime show in memory: GOP congressmen demanded an FCC probe, YouGov found satisfaction split sharply along party lines, and Bad Bunny wiped his ~52.8M-follower Instagram days later.
2026-02-01Speech
Before I say, 'Thank God,' I'm going to say, 'ICE out.' We're not savage. We're not animals. We're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans.
Accepting Best Música Urbana Album at the 2026 Grammys, the same night Debí Tirar Más Fotos became the first Spanish-language album to win Album of the Year.
'ICE out' drew a standing ovation and dominated Grammys coverage — one week before he took the Super Bowl stage.
2025-09-11Interview
There was the issue that... ICE could be outside (my concert venue). And it's something that we were talking about and very concerned about.