Fox host Jesse Watters roasted for calling Bad Bunny show a “foreign” invasion

February 17 2026, 08:15

Fox host Jesse Watters has been brutally mocked for claiming Bad Bunny’s halftime show was “foreign” and an invasion of the United States, considering Puerto Rico is a part of it.

“I like the Super Bowl not to be an international event,” he ranted, becoming one of many right-wingers having on-air tantrums about the fact that Bad Bunny performed in Spanish and celebrated Latino culture.

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Watters then blasted the NFL for using the show as a way to “recruit Latin American audience on the heels of Latin America invading this country.”

“You see all these foreigners speaking a foreign language, with foreign flags marching into the camera like a caravan. Too soon.” Watters said of a moment in the show where dancers carried flags from countries across the Americas. “This was an open borders moment. Everybody knows it.”

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Many on social media called him out for his ignorance.

Who's going to tell him Puerto Rico is part of the United States… https://t.co/1xL9FtUTl1
— Rep. Mike Levin (@RepMikeLevin) February 11, 2026

Once again for the people in the back: Puerto Rico is within our “borders” and its people are US citizens. It’s either stupidity or willful ignorance. Neither is a good look. Open your minds and hearts. You won’t have to be so angry all the time. https://t.co/fVIDZWO4wM
— Mary DeTurris Poust (@MaryDTP) February 10, 2026

There is nothing more foreign to America than speaking European languages and believing in foreign Middle Eastern religions. Spanish, English, Protestantism, Catholicism—it’s literally all the same, so get over it MAGA

Signed,
Native Americans https://t.co/pnmrquc3aV
— Brett Chapman (@brettachapman) February 10, 2026

I’m really getting sick of these racists calling Latinos “foreigners” in their own country. Just say “they’re not white” and say what you really mean. https://t.co/oPYkbqThC8
— Daniel Aguilar (@daanielaaguilar) February 10, 2026

Only a hateful ghoul could see that moment of unity as an “invasion”. What a terrible human being he is. https://t.co/1rlDulWvAE
— Michael Kasdan (@michaelkasdan) February 9, 2026

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