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Like he did in 2023, Bad Bunny delivered the most impassioned part of his monologue in Spanish, promising his Latin base that the Super Bowl show would be as much their triumph as his. \u201cIt\u2019s an achievement for all of us,\u201d he said. \u201cDemonstrating our footprint, our contribution. No one will ever be able to remove or erase it.\u201d His trolls can stomp and fume and insist that \u201creal\u201d Americans should feel disrespected, not stupid but tricked and left out by a mainstream star daring not to always speak directly to them. Our evening\u2019s host offered an elegant prescription for their conniption. \u201cIf you didn\u2019t understand what I just said,\u201d Bad Bunny purred of his Spanish riff, \u201cyou have four months to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before Bad Bunny, the cold open went straight into the CrossFit belly of Trump\u2019s inner cabinet. Jost was a too-natural Hegseth, all puffed up chest and Crood arms, broviating at Quantico about how the military needed to stop being so gay and start clocking more kipping pull-ups. Johnson\u2019s Trump put Jost in a frozen time-out as he strode into frame, warning that he had SNL in his cross hairs. \u201cI know late night TV like the back of my hand,\u201d he warned, revealing a crater of mold that no makeup could cover. He got in some barbs about the loss of so many cast members (Godspeed Ego Nwodim<\/strong>, Heidi Gardner<\/strong>, and Michael Longfellow<\/strong>) and enlisted the crew to keep an eye on Marcello Hernandez<\/strong> for him. \u201cRemember, Daddy\u2019s watching,\u201d Trump warned, as Mikey Day<\/strong> as Brendan Carr<\/strong> scuttled behind him.<\/p>\n