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Boxer Jake Paul on Sunday explained his “fake citizen” jab aimed at singer Bad Bunny ahead of the Grammy Award winner’s Super Bowl LX halftime show performance.
Paul wrote on social media that he wasn’t attacking Bad Bunny because he’s from Puerto Rico, but because he was speaking out against things like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, February 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
“To clarify: I was not calling anyone a ‘fake citizen’ because they are from Puerto Rico. I live in Puerto Rico and I love Puerto Rico. I have used my platform to support Puerto Rico time and time again and always will,” he wrote. “But if you’re publicly criticizing ICE doing its job and openly hating America, I’m going to talk about it. Period. That’s the same reason I called Hunter Hess.
“If you benefit from a country and the platform it gives you, but at the same time you publicly disrespect it, that’s what I mean by being a fake citizen. And I agree that love is more powerful than hate. Love America.”
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Jake Paul is introduced during a weigh-in before his heavyweight boxing match against Anthony Joshua, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Miami Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
“Paul wrote earlier in the day that he was boycotting the Super Bowl halftime show because of Bad Bunny’s stance against ICE, adding that he was a fake US citizen performing and publicly hating America.”
The singer prominently spoke out against ICE when he received his Grammy Award for Album of the Year earlier this month.
Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, February 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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“ICE out,” he said. “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens: we are humans and we are Americans.”
