Super Bowl, the Seahawks beat the Patriots (and Trump takes it out on Bad Bunny) | EUROtoday

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Italy-United States, parallel destinies. It has been stated a thousand instances, for instance, that Sanremo is the Italian SuperBowl, within the sense of probably the most anticipated and essential tv occasion within the annual schedule. And so, whereas right here Giorgia Meloni’s authorities monopolizes the political debate with the case of the withdrawal of the comic Andrea Pucci from the subsequent Italian Song Festival, Donald Trump continues to argue in opposition to the participation of the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny as a singing visitor on the sport that decides the American soccer season. In the face of violence from ICE, tariffs and worldwide relations that aren’t at all times coherent. But now politics, earlier than votes, hunts for social likes.

Let’s begin from the enjoying area anyway. In a match with out historical past i Seahawks of Seattle have dominated the Super Bowl LX tearing up the Patriots of New England 29 to 13, but the ethical winner of the American soccer remaining was the Grammy-winning rapper Bad Bunny who launched a message of unity to the nation from Levi’s Stadium: «Together we’re America, the one factor extra highly effective than hate is love». Political controversy was inevitable, with «The Donald» thundering on the social community he owned Truth: «It was the worst present ever, a slap within the face of America. Nobody understands a phrase this man says and the dancing is disgusting, particularly for youngsters.”

Fresh from three victories at the Grammy last Sunday including Best Album, Bad Bunny, the superstar of Debi Take More Photos who last year interrupted his US tour to avoid exposing his fans to threats from the’Icebrought a taste of his «Casita Rosa» to the stage. Only Trump could be offended, as he had predicted the day before. The occupant of the White House was at Mar-a-Lago, having chosen to miss the Super Bowl “as a result of distance” from the West Coast but also due to the NFL’s choice to assign the half-time show to an American citizen who sings only in Spanish.

Trump had said he would stream the area rocker’s pro-Maga concert Kid Rock put in place by the organization of Charlie KirkTurning Point USA: a medley of “previous however goldies” and country music which ended with the appeal to spectators to dedicate their lives to Jesus.

For the USA, the Super Bowl represents a great secular celebration which, like Thanksgiving, should unite a divided country. In giving the pulse of his “state of the Union”, the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny has recreated within the stadium an actual village populated by stars like Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Cardi B, Pedro Pascal e Jessica Albabut in addition folks taken from actual life, a taqueria in Los Angeles and, from Brooklyn, one of many final remaining Puerto Rican social golf equipment in New York. There was additionally a toddler whose former grocery store cashier Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio he gave the golden gramophone from the Grammys: to many he evoked the infant Liam Ramosdeported from Minnesota to Texas, a drama that has moved half of America in current weeks.