Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Bad Bunny performed his halftime show entirely in Spanish, except near the end he proclaimed “God bless America,” and then proceeded to rattle off the names of a couple of dozen South and Central American countries, before adding “the United States and Canada, and Puerto Rico.”

This was a wonderfully subversive gesture, because in the Spanish of South and Central America, the word “America” means all of North, Central, and South America. The United States is just one part of the actual America, or the Americas as one would say when speaking in an English that is aware that Yankee imperialism isn’t the only way of looking at the nations of these two continents.

And of course doing the entire Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish was a gob of spit in the face of MAGA, which has always been infuriated by the idea that somewhere someone is finding it slightly easier than it would otherwise be to navigate life in the United States, because an option on a phone tree suggests that para Espanol, oprima dos.