Jake Paul takes issue with Bad Bunny 'openly hating America' amid ICE criticism

Boxer Jake Paul connected Sunday explained his "fake citizen" jab aimed astatine vocalist Bad Bunny up of the Grammy Award winner’s Super Bowl LX halftime amusement performance.

Paul wrote connected societal media helium wasn’t taking a swipe astatine Bad Bunny due to the fact that he’s from Puerto Rico, but alternatively due to the fact that helium was speaking retired against things similar U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl LX shot crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, successful Santa Clara, California. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

"To clarify: I wasn’t calling anyone a ‘fake citizen’ due to the fact that they’re from Puerto Rico. I unrecorded successful Puerto Rico, and I emotion Puerto Rico. I person utilized my level to enactment Puerto Rico clip and clip again and volition ever bash so," helium wrote. "But if you’re publically criticizing ICE who are doing their occupation and openly hating connected America, I’m going to talk connected it. Period. That’s the aforesaid crushed I called retired Hunter Hess.

"If you payment from a state and the level it gives you, but publically disrespect it astatine the aforesaid time, that’s what I mean by being a fake citizen. And I hold emotion is much almighty than hate. Love America."

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Jake Paul is introduced during a weigh-in up of his heavyweight boxing lucifer against Anthony Joshua, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, successful Miami Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Paul wrote earlier successful the time helium was boycotting the Super Bowl halftime amusement implicit Bad Bunny’s stance against ICE, adding that helium was a fake American national performing who publically hates America.

The vocalist prominently spoke retired against ICE erstwhile helium received his Grammy Award for Album of the Year earlier this month.

Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl LX shot crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, successful Santa Clara, California. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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"ICE out," helium said. "We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens — we are humans, and we are Americans."

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