Conservatives melted down over Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
Some of President Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes said they couldn’t understand what the Grammy Award-winning musician was rapping about during his set. Others suggested he was somehow in league with the devil.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance as Uncle Sam has been interpreted as a diss toward Trump.
Ben Shapiro referenced Trump’s response last week to an Afghan reporter, whose accent the president purportedly didn’t understand when he wrote on social media: “Actually, it’s a beautiful voice and a beautiful accent. The only problem is, I can’t understand a word you’re saying. But I just say this: good luck, live in peace.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) asked if she was “the only one needing subtitles for this!!” Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) called the show “absolute TRASH.”
Commentators Eric Daugherty and Benny Johnson, meanwhile, called the show “Black nationalist” and Lamar a “mumbling pagan Satanic cultist.”