Trump takes on Bad Bunny

From Washington, where “I don’t know him” is the new foreign policy, Patrick Gutfield unpacks Trump’s hilarious denial of knowing who global megastar Bad Bunny is—right before calling his Super Bowl halftime show “absolutely ridiculous.” Meanwhile, ICE and Kristi Noem threaten to turn the big game into Operation Tailgate, the Treasury plans to mint an actual Trump coin that may or may not be illegal, and insiders reveal the president’s insomnia is now a workplace hazard for everyone within Wi-Fi range. 

Episode Transcript

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Callaroga Shark Media from Washington, DC, where I like it.
This is Vallot. That's right. Bad Bunny is playing the
super Bowl and apparently someone doesn't like it. Let's hit this.
I'm Patrick Gutfield and President Donald Trump has shared his
thoughts on Bad Bunny headlining the twenty twenty six Super

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Bowl halftime show, and spoiler alerts he's not thrilled about it.
Appearing on news Max's Greg Kelly Reports, Trump was asked
about the NFL's choice. Greg Kelly doing his best out
of frame, the question said, the NFL just chose the
Bad Bunny Rabbit or whatever his name is. This guy
who hates ice, he doesn't like you. He accuses everything

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he doesn't like of racism. Trump's response was like, immediate
and definitive. I've never heard of him. I don't know
who he is now. Bad Bunny is a three time
Grammy winner and one of the most streamed artists on
the planet. But sure, total mystery who this guy is.
Then again, Trump didn't just stop it. Not knowing him,
he had opinions anyway, I don't know why they're doing it.

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Trump said, it's crazy, and then they blame it on
some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think
it's absolutely ridiculous, so to recap, never heard of him,
don't know who he is, but also it's absolutely ridiculous
that he was chosen. It's the presidential equivalent of I
haven't read the book, but one star. Kelly also helpfully

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noted that Bad Bunny does not seem like a unifying
entertainer and a lot of folks don't even know who
he is, which is an interesting take considering Bad Bunny's
last album debut at number one on the Billboard two
hundred and he's performed to sold out stadiums worldwide. But yeah,
very niche artist, really underground. After the halftime show announcement,

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Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski announced that ICE will be in
attendance at the game. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome backed
the up, insisting that ICE agents would be all over
the super Bowl. So that's the vibe we're going for, nothing,
says entertainment spectacle like heavily publicized immigration enforcement operations. So
here we are. The President doesn't know who Bad Bunny is,

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but thinks choosing him is ridiculous. Ic agents are being
promised at the game like they're part of the entertainment lineup,
and Bad Bunny is preparing to perform for what will
likely be one of the largest audiences in television history,
while half of Washington announces they've never heard of him.
The super Bowl is in February. That gives everyone plenty

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of time to google Bad Bunny and find out that, yes,
he's actually quite famous. Or they could just keep insisting
they have no idea who he is while simultaneously being
very upset about his halftime show. That works too. The
Treasury Department announced that they're planning to mint a one
dollar commemorative coin featuring President Trump's face, set to roll

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out in twenty twenty six. And before you ask, no,
this is not a joke. This is real. The United
States government is actually going to make legal tender with
Donald Trump on it. Now, you might be thinking, wait,
isn't there a law against putting living people on currency,
And you would be correct. There is an eighteen sixty

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six law that says only deceased people can appear on
US money, specifically to avoid making America look like a monarchy.
But apparently someone at Treasury read that and thought, yeah,
but what if we just didn't follow that law, the
coin would feature Trump's profile on the headside and on
the tail side. And I want to be very clear
that I am not making this up. It shows Trump

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with his fist raised in front of an American flag
with the words fight, Fight, Fight above it. So we've
gone from in God we trust to fight, fight Fight.
That's quite a pivot for our national currency. The justification
here is the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of twenty twenty,
which allows the Treasury to mint come memorative coins for

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the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The coins are supposed to have designs emblematic of the
US Semiquin Centennial, and apparently nothing says celebrating two hundred
fifty years of democracy quite like putting the current president's
face on money. Here's where it gets even better. That
same twenty twenty law explicitly states that no portrait of

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a living person may be included in the design. So
the law they're using to justify making the coin is
also the law that forbids them from making the coin.
That's not a loophole, that's just ignoring what's written down.
Throughout the year, Trump's allies in Congress have introduced bills
to rename Dulles Airport after him, carve his face into
Mount Rushmore, and make his birthday a federal holiday. One

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proposal wanted to put him on the one hundred dollar bill.
Another wanted to create a two hundred and fifty dollars
bill just so they could put his face on that too.
It's gotten to the point where you can't tell if
these are legislative proposals or the wish list, Sannah So.
CNN's Caitlin Collins was on a podcast last week talking
about what it's like to travel with President Trump, and

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apparently the biggest challenge isn't the security, It isn't the logistics.
It isn't even the fact that you're trapped on a
plane with no escape. No, the real problem is that
the man simply refuses to sleep. According to Collins, Trump
aids have told her that the President will actually wake
up staffers in the middle of the night because he
wants to chat. Just imagine that you finally drift off

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after a sixteen hour workday and then at three in
the morning, there's a knock on your door. Because the
President thought of something he needs to tell you right now.
Colin says when she talks to sources about joining Trump
on Air Force One for long trips, they basically treat
it like jury duty. You never want to be on
Air Force one on a trip, one told her, which

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is wild because for most people, riding on Air Force
one sounds pretty cool. But when you realize you're essentially
locked in a flying office with someone who treats sleep
like it's optional, Suddenly that Southwest middle seat doesn't look
so bad. And here's the thing, this isn't just affecting
his immediate staff. Collins mentioned that when her podcast co

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host visited Fox News Studios recently, a producer there said, quote,
none of us are sleeping because the president doesn't sleep.
We're all working two times right now. So Trump's insambia
has somehow become contagious across the entire news cycle. He's
not sleeping, so his staff can't sleep, and now apparently
the people covering his staff can't sleep either. Portions of

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