Gavin Newsom Epically Shuts Down Suggestion That Kid Rock Should Be Doing Super Bowl Halftime Show

Earlier this week, the NFL announced that worldwide superstar Bad Bunny would be the headliner for the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show, causing right-wing heads to explode over the news.

After far-right provocateur Nick Adams suggested that the singer, a fierce critic of the Trump administration, should not have been chosen for the halftime gig, California Governor Gavin Newsom's press office took to X to mock him in the account's now familiar Trump-esque style.

Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper and singer whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, will be the first Latin male artist to headline football's largest event.

Adams joined the wave of conservatives who are not happy about this news, claiming in a post on X that Bad Bunny "will just further divide the American people" and suggesting that either the right-wing performers Kid Rock or Jason Aldean should headline the show instead.

He said:

Kid Rock and Jason Aldean would have made a great Super Bowl Halftime show. Bad Bunny will just further divide the American people. A missed opportunity from the NFL to bring people together and tone down the rhetoric.

You can see his post below.

Enter Newsom's press office, which swooped in with this zinger, just the latest in a weeks-long series that mocks the right with Trump-style posts on social media:

"Wrong. Kid Rock has been INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED from performing in California and as such he cannot perform at Super Bowl LX!!!"

You can see Newsom's post below.

Causing many right-wingers to freak out on Newsom, not getting the joke.

Many clearly got the gag and cheered Newsom on.

And many others piled on Adams's suggestion that the Bad Bunny choice was what was "divisive."

Over the summer, Newsom trolled Kid Rock by sharing an AI-generated poster of the singer dressed as Uncle Sam, urging people to "support Gavin Newsom." Newsom later jokingly declared that he had "accepted" Kid Rock's endorsement.

Kid Rock later took the bait, telling his followers that "the only support Gavin Newscum will ever get out of me is from DEEZ NUTZ."

Aldean, for his part, is very openly MAGA as well, once telling an audience that he wants the country to be "restored to what it once was" after being hit with backlash over his song "Try That in a Small Town."

The music video came under scrutiny for allegedly promoting racism and advocating for vigilante justice. It was also filmed at the Maury County Courthouse in Tennessee—a site infamous for a historical lynching in 1927.