Trump trashes Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime performance as ‘single worst’ in history
Emily Jacobs
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Former President Donald Trump slammed pop superstar Rihanna’s highly-anticipated Super Bowl halftime show, decrying it as the “single worst” such performance in history.
The 34-year-old music icon, who was the sole headliner for the halftime show, performed a medley of some of her greatest hits while donning an entirely red ski-suit ensemble that showed off her baby bump. The performance, her first in five years, featured Rihanna surrounded by dozens of dancers clad in matching white ski-suits and shaded goggles as she sang from multiple moving stages. Despite performing while pregnant with her second child in two years, Trump not impressed with the music and fashion mogul, who has been a foe of the former president.
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“EPIC FAIL: Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday evening. “This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, which is already in serious DECLINE, with her foul and insulting language. Also, so much for her ‘Stylist!’”
Trump made a similar dig against the platinum-selling artist on Thursday, sharing a Truth Social post by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), an ally of the former president who served as White House physician, condemning the NFL for selecting Rihanna as halftime performer despite her anti-Trump rhetoric.
“Rihanna spray painted ‘F*** Donald Trump’ on a car at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. She’s made a career of spewing degenerate filth while badmouthing America every chance she gets,” Jackson wrote on the platform. “Why is the NFL showcasing this crap? Rihanna SHOULD NOT be the halftime performer!!”
“Without her ‘Stylist’ she’d be NOTHING,” Trump wrote while sharing the post. “Bad everything, and NO TALENT!”
The incident Jackson was referring to took place in 2020, when Rihanna visited the famed Cadillac Ranch roadside attraction in Texas. She posted a series of pictures to social media that showcased her spray-painting a half-buried car with the words “F*** Trump” and captioned the post “art.”
Rihanna and Trump have feuded before. She took legal action against the then-president in 2018 to prevent him from playing her music at his rallies. At the time, the “Don’t Stop the Music” singer tweeted that neither “me nor my people would ever be at or around one of those tragic rallies.”
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She also publicly criticized a number of Trump administration policies, such as the 45th president’s so-called “Muslim ban” in 2017.
“Disgusted! The news is devastating! America is being ruined right before our eyes!” she wrote on Twitter one week into Trump’s first term. “What an immoral pig you have to be to implement such BS!”