Former Congressman Matt Gaetz and Colorado Consultant Lauren Boebert led Trumpworld’s scathing criticism over Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present.
After sweeping 5 Grammy Awards final week, Lamar took to stage at Caeser’s Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, because the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs trailed the Philadelphia Eagles 24-0. The Birds wound up hoisting the Lombardi Trophy for a second time with the ultimate rating of 40-22 of their favor.
Earlier than rifling by means of his hits together with DNA, Humble, and his watered-down Drake diss monitor Not Like Us, actor Samuel L. Jackson launched the rapper onto the stage, saying: “Too loud, too reckless, too ghetto. Mr. Lamar.”
It was a sentiment that was apparently taken moderately actually by a few of Trump’s MAGA trustworthy, who lashed out on the Pulitzer Prize winner’s allegedly incomprehensible efficiency.
“The halftime present you simply watched is clearly the regime’s response to Trump’s historic positive factors with black males,” Gaetz tweeted, prompting X customers to level out that Lamar was tapped to headline the Tremendous Bowl months earlier than Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris on the poll field.
![Matt Gaetz lambasted Lamar being picked to headline the Super Bowl, while also taking a swipe at Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/23/20/3d3d0dd103754c9981a7f431473c3a86.jpg)
The embattled former Florida consultant additionally took the chance to unfold some obvious vaccine skepticism, whereas taking a swipe on the Chief’s all-star tight-end, Travis Kelce.
“Vaccines have clearly impacted the play of Travis Kelce,” he added, although it was not clear if this was a joke or not.
Chiming in on the halftime hate, congresswoman and conservative firebrand, Boebert, wrote: “Inform me I’m not the one one needing subtitles for this!!”
A fast-witted X consumer retorted: “What’s the purpose? You possibly can’t learn anyway!”
![Lauren Boebert tweeted that “needed subtitles”](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/24/13/2025-01-20T162344Z_1851246998_HP1EL1K19JH1G_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-INAUGURATION.jpg)
In the meantime, Kari Lake, who did not nab Arizona’s Senate seat in November, wrote: “Halftime Present 0/10.”
A savvy social media consumer responded that she is “0/2 on successful elections,” after Lake additionally misplaced the Arizona gubernatorial election in 2022.
Gushing over the president in one other tweet, she added: “If Fox was sensible they’d take a digital camera exhibiting President Trump on the recreation.”
“The Tremendous Bowl Halftime present was absolute TRASH!,” former New York Consultant George Santos tweeted.
![Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar has faced flak from Donald Trump loyalists over his Super Bowl halftime performance](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/02/10/03/SUPER_BOWL-MEDIO_TIEMPO_55781.jpg)
Far-right political pundit Matt Walsh additionally claimed that Lamar’s efficiency was “trash”.
“No person may even perceive what he’s saying. And the overwhelming majority of soccer followers haven’t even heard of most of those songs,” he ranted.
Trump hasn’t publicly commented on Lamar’s efficiency.
After turning into the primary incumbent president to attend the Tremendous Bowl – and the primary incumbent president to storm out early – Trump took to Fact Social and supplied some scathing post-match evaluation.
“The worst a part of the Tremendous Bowl, by far, was watching the Kickoff the place, because the ball is crusing by means of the air, the complete area is frozen, stiff. Faculty Soccer doesn’t do it, and received’t! Whose thought was it to spoil the Recreation?,” he shared late on Sunday.