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The numbers are in and they don’t look good for Donald Trump.
A recent poll conducted by Yahoo! and YouGov has found that more Americans believe that Puerto Rican superstar and recent Super Bowl headliner Bad Bunny “better represents” the country than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The survey asked 1,704 adults “Who better represents America?”, Bad Bunny or Donald Trump – who lashed out at the Super Bowl headliner, calling his performance “an affront to the Greatness of America”. It turns out that 42 per cent of participants voted in favour of the singer, while 39 per cent chose Trump. 20 per cent said they were unsure.
When broken down by race, the approval rating was 61 per cent among Black people compared to just nine per cent who said Trump, and 46 per cent among Hispanics compared to 32 per cent for Trump.
The only category where Trump got a higher rate than Bad Bunny was among white people, where 48 per cent said the president “better represents” the US, compared to 37 per cent who opted for the singer.
Elsewhere, 47 per cent said that they watched the performance and among those who saw it, 30 per cent said they enjoyed it compared to just eight per cent who said they disliked it.
When asked how they felt about the singer performing exclusively in Spanish, 31 per cent were fine with it, and just 11 per cent disapproved.
When questioned about the way Bad Bunny ended his halftime show – saying “God bless America” while naming all the countries in North, South and Central America, backed by a billboard that read “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” – 60 per cent approved, 24 per cent said they were unsure, and just 16 per cent were unhappy about it.
To make those figures worse for Trump, there were more participants that identified as Republican in the poll than those who identified themselves as Democrats.
Bad Bunny’s historic halftime show has been officially ranked as the fourth biggest show in the Super Bowl’s 60 years, with the musician pulling in 128.2 million viewers according to Nielsen – compared to a reported high of 6.1 million for the pre-taped MAGA protest halftime show headlined by Kid Rock.
Earlier this week, we reported that US Conservative lawmakers had called for a federal investigation into Bad Bunny’s show.
The FCC soon confirmed that Bad Bunny did not violate any broadcast decency standards, as his songs were scrubbed of lyrics that normally include references to sex acts.