Kristi Noem confirms ICE will surround Super Bowl with blunt warning to NFL

Kristi Noem confirmed ICE’s plans to surround the Super Bowl and anti-Trump halftime performer Bad Bunny, and shared a warning to the National Football League.

The 31-year-old rapper’s selection to play angered MAGA fans after he had previously refused to tour in the United States over fears ICE would target fans outside his shows.

Noem, speaking to Benny Johnson while in Chicago with DHS and ICE agents, said she had a message for the league and the rapper.

‘The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day,’ the DHS Secretary said, when asked if she had a message to the league and the rapper.

‘They won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe and they’re so weak. We’ll fix it.’

She was then asked to confirm Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski’s statement that agents will surround the game in Santa Clara

‘Yeah, we’ll be all over that place. People should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country,’ she added.

Liberals were outraged by Noem’s unfiltered criticism of the NFL.

‘Kristi Noem thinks God is mad that bad bunny is playing at the Super Bowl. Wow I am really glad I don’t know her version of God. What a sociopath,’ one wrote.

Kristi Noem confirmed ICE’s plans to surround the Super Bowl and anti-Trump halftime performer Bad Bunny, with a blunt message for the National Football League

MAGA world erupted after the Puerto Rican artist was named for the highly-coveted gig

One MAGA fan joked about Noem’s plans: ‘Yes! This should be the best halftime show ever!’

Bad Bunny addressed his decision to make a sole mainland US appearance just moments before the NFL revealed he was playing the Super Bowl.

‘I’ve been thinking about it these days, and after discussing it with my team, I think I’ll do just one date in the United States,’ the musician tweeted in Spanish.

MAGA world erupted after the Puerto Rican artist was named for the highly-coveted gig.

Bad Bunny – real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – spoke to Variety about the reason he didn’t schedule any mainland US tour dates.

He cited the lengthy residency in Puerto Rico – a US territory – and the Trump Administration’s increasing use of ICE agents as reasons why he wouldn’t perform.

‘Man, honestly, yes,’ he replied. ‘There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the US, and none of them were out of hate — I’ve performed there many times.

‘All of (the shows) have been successful. All of them have been magnificent. I’ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the US.

She also confirmed Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski’s statement that agents will surround the game in Santa Clara, California after the 31-year-old pop star snubbed the US during his tour over fears ICE would target fans outside his shows

‘But specifically, for a residency here in Puerto Rico, when we are an unincorporated territory of the US… People from the US could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world.

‘But there was the issue of — like, f*****g ICE could be outside (my concert). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.’

Earlier this week, Trump’s advisor revealed agents will have a presence at America’s biggest event and bemoaned Bad Bunny’s selection to perform.

‘It’s so shameful they picked someone who seems to hate America,’ Lewandowski said.

‘There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and no where else. We will find and deport you. That is a very real situation.’

While Lewandowski slammed the NFL for tapping the singer to play the big game, he claimed that ICE would have a presence at the big event anyway.

‘I don’t care if it’s a concert for Johnny Smith or Bad Bunny or anybody else. We’re going to do enforcement everywhere. We are going to make Americans safe,’ he said. ‘That is a directive from the president. If you’re in this country illegally, do yourself a favor: Go home.’

Bad Bunny’s getting the gig follows weeks of speculation over who would perform The NFL typically announces the artist for the halftime show in Week 1.

Donald Trump attended last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had long teased pop superstar Taylor Swift to perform at the show, especially after she announced her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

‘We would always love to have Taylor play. She is a special, special talent, and obviously she would be welcome at any time,’ Goodell said on the TODAY Show earlier this month.

When pressed by host Savannah Guthrie for more details, Goodell replied, ‘I can’t tell you anything about it’ before adding that it was a ‘maybe’.

This marks the third time in the last five Super Bowls where the artist performing was a rapper.

At Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles, a cast of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Anderson .Paak, and Kendrick Lamar performed. Last year, at Super Bowl LIX, Lamar was the main headliner alongside R&B artist SZA.

According to the Spotify Weekly Top Artists Global chart for the week of September 19, Bad Bunny is the second-most streamed artist behind Swift.

He has over 77million monthly listeners on the platform and over 101million followers on Spotify.

Bad Bunny has been credited with popularizing the sound of Spanish-language rap and trap music worldwide.

He has won three Grammy Awards, eleven Latin Grammy Awards, and has two albums which have gone Platinum in the United States (YHLQMDLG and El Último Tour Del Mundo, both of which were released in 2020).