President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, says she finds it “fairly humorous” that some persons are “melting down” at her “joking supply” to carry out at an alternate Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
The podcaster, who’s married to the president’s son, Eric Trump, supplied to headline a MAGA-themed halftime present that was introduced by Turning Level USA, the right-wing political group based by slain activist Charlie Kirk. Her suggestion was in response to criticism from the right-wing over Latin singer Unhealthy Bunny being chosen as subsequent 12 months’s official Tremendous Bowl halftime headliner.
“So we simply heard one thing that’s fairly humorous. I heard that there are lots of people on the market on the left who’re melting down and really upset in regards to the chance that I is perhaps performing on the halftime present for the Tremendous Bowl for Turning Level USA,” she mentioned in an Instagram video Saturday.
Unhealthy Bunny’s vocal condemnation of Donald Trump’s increasing ICE raids and his advocacy for Puerto Rico have sparked backlash from some MAGA supporters, who additionally extensively bemoaned that the three-time Grammy winner has no songs which might be solely in English.
The musician clapped back at the outrage throughout his monologue on “Saturday Night time Dwell” earlier this month.
Claiming her preliminary suggestion was “clearly a comical and joking supply,” Lara Trump doubled down on her proposition, telling her practically three million Instagram followers that it “nonetheless stands” even if she was by no means truly supplied the chance.
“I’ve not been requested in any formal method to carry out for the Turning Level halftime present for the Tremendous Bowl,” she continued. “However everyone on the market continues getting upset about it and freaking out about it.”
Final week, the previous co-chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee nominated herself to perform on the “All American Halftime Present” that’s meant to rival the big-game broadcast on NBC on her “Right View With Lara Trump” podcast. She claimed she heard from “numerous house owners of NFL groups” who’re heated by the choice of Unhealthy Bunny.
“I don’t know what the heck the NFL was considering with this one, however I can inform there are lots of people who aren’t pleased about it,” the political pundit mentioned. “The good information is we don’t want the NFL. We don’t want any of those woke losers to carry out, we will have our personal efficiency, so shoutout to Turning Level for developing with their very own halftime present, I like it.”
Lara Trump, whose most-streamed monitor on Spotify is a cover of the 1989 tune “I Gained’t Again Down,” initially carried out by late rock musician Tom Petty, has only a measly 13,000 month-to-month listeners on Spotify in comparison with Unhealthy Bunny who boasts 81.3M month-to-month listeners.
In 2020, her cowl of the “I Gained’t Again Down” stirred controversy after Petty’s household issued a cease-and-desist order to bar Donald Trump from utilizing the music on the marketing campaign path. Regardless of that, Lara Trump went on to perform the duvet at her father-in-law’s golf membership in Westchester, New York, earlier this 12 months.
