But it also drew significant backlash from conservative and public figures for its Spanish-language content. President Donald Trump, for example, criticized the performance in a lengthy Truth Social post, calling it “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER” and a “‘slap in the face’ to our Country.”
Chris Brown appeared to join in on the shade, too. Taking to his IG Story shortly after Bad Bunny’s set, Chris wrote, “I THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY.. THEY NEED ME! 😏”
The post immediately triggered backlash, as people accused Chris of hating on the Grammy winner’s big moment. “How you hating from outside the club?” one person wrote under Chris’s most recent Instagram post, while another called his comment “shady and tacky.”
“Who watches a whole Bad Bunny performance and then says ‘Safe to say, they need me,'” they added. “The man just finished his show and that was your first thought? It sounds like ‘Yeah that show y’all just watched was trash, they need me’ it just lands poorly.”
Another agreed Chris was “real corny for that.”
“So thankful you showed you true colors,” someone else wrote, adding that they were unfollowing him.
Amid the backlash, Chris returned to his Instagram Story to share a cryptic message that seemed to address the criticism. He wrote, “Ain’t gone lie… I LOVE pissing some of yall off,” alongside a laughing emoji.
But people weren’t laughing. “You just got a lot of backlash now you want to make it a laughing matter,” one person wrote in the comments of the Shade Room’s repost. Another agreed it seemed like Chris was “trying to play it off.”
“That’s him trying to come back from all the backlash he received for such a dumb comment he knows he was wrong for,” one person said. “He should just apologize.”
Someone else commented that Chris “needs to grow up,” as one more said, “This is why they don’t want you in nothing.”
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