{"id":2492892,"date":"2025-09-30T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/money-motivated-bad-bunny-to-break-his-own-rule-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:40:44","slug":"money-motivated-bad-bunny-to-break-his-own-rule-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/money-motivated-bad-bunny-to-break-his-own-rule-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"Money motivated Bad Bunny to \u2018break his own rule\u2019: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmoney-motivated-bad-bunny-to-break-his-own-rule-joe-concha%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2492892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses criticism from Joe Concha, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bruce-springsteen-who-called-trump-a-threat-to-democracy-ripped-for-pushing-unity-in-super-bowl-ad\/\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen, Who Called Trump A \u2018Threat To Democracy,\u2019 Ripped For Pushing Unity In ... Ad\">senior writer<\/a> for the Washington examiner, toward singer Bad Bunny for deciding to perform at the 2026 Super bowl halftime show in the united States despite previously vowing not to perform in the U.S. while Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) remained active. Concha accuses Bad Bunny of being motivated by money, pointing out that the singer had expressed concerns over ICE raids at his concerts, particularly citing an incident in Puerto Rico where ICE apprehended a violent criminal. Concha argues that many Americans support ICE&#8217;s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrants-guilty-of-dui-assault-will-not-be-deported-under-biden-plan\/\" title=\"Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan\">deport illegal immigrants<\/a> with criminal records, referencing a Pew Research study showing 97% support deportation of such individuals. Bad Bunny had previously avoided U.S. concerts out of fear of ICE presence but has now agreed to the high-profile NFL event, prompting Concha to speculate that some viewers might boycott the Super Bowl in protest. The article also notes Bad Bunny&#8217;s important popularity on music streaming platforms in recent years. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Joe Concha suggests money motivated Bad Bunny to &lsquo;break his own rule&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2360074\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner <\/em>Senior Writer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3829516\/nfl-insults-fans-anti-ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl-60-halftime-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Concha<\/a> criticized singer Bad Bunny for breaking his oath to avoid performing in the United States due to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3828919\/bad-bunny-perform-super-bowl-halftime-despite-trump-immigration-policies-halting-us-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 Super Bowl halftime performer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Bad Bunny likes money. Because why else would he break his own rule that &lsquo;I will never do a concert in the United States again as long as ICE is still in operation,&rsquo;&rdquo; Concha said on Fox Business&rsquo;s <em>Kudlow<\/em> Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3828919\/bad-bunny-perform-super-bowl-halftime-despite-trump-immigration-policies-halting-us-tour\/\">Bad Bunny to perform at Super Bowl halftime despite Trump immigration policies halting US tour<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3828650\/jk-rowling-rebuffs-emma-watson-changed-tune-on-author\/\">JK Rowling rebuffs &#8216;ignorant&#8217; Emma Watson after she changed tune on author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3818176\/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-review\/\">Spinal tapped out: Review of &#8216;Spinal Tap II&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;He was mad that ICE was doing raids outside of one of his concerts in Puerto Rico, for example. One of those raids ended up finding a guy they were looking for, who was a person who beat women, convicted of rape, and convicted of homicide,&rdquo; Concha said. &ldquo;So why would you be against ICE when they&rsquo;re getting the worst elements of this country out of this country?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3154384&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=7d06923415678ff306b6b78b98672161\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Concha cited a Pew Research study, which found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2025\/03\/26\/americans-views-of-deportations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">97% of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants who have committed a crime<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between January and mid-July, ICE arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3487751\/ice-arrests-150000-illegal-immigrants-since-january-trump-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">150,000<\/a> illegal immigrants, 100,000 of whom either had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pending criminal charges filed<\/a> against them or were previously convicted of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crime<\/a>, according to ICE. About 67% of illegal immigrants arrested had a criminal charge pending or were convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny&nbsp;explained to <em>i-D Magazine&nbsp;<\/em>that he decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/i-d.co\/article\/bad-bunny-puerto-rico-residency-issue-375-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoid the U.S. during his tour<\/a> out of fear of an ICE raid at his concerts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There were many reasons why I didn&rsquo;t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate &mdash; I&rsquo;ve performed there many times,&rdquo; Bad Bunny said. &ldquo;But there was the issue of &mdash; like, f***ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it&rsquo;s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Concha argued that Bad Bunny&rsquo;s negative opinion on ICE operations differs so starkly from that of many Americans that some could protest his performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3829516\/nfl-insults-fans-anti-ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl-60-halftime-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IN FOCUS: NFL INSULTS FANS BY HIRING ANTI-ICE BAD BUNNY FOR SUPER BOWL HALFTIME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why would you bring in someone that is this decisive? When all they&rsquo;re going to talk about before this halftime show is not, &lsquo;What song is he going to perform?&rsquo; but, &lsquo;How many people in this country are going to turn their TVs off in protest?&rsquo;&rdquo; Concha asked.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny was Spotify&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2001261\/puerto-rican-rapper-bad-bunny-tops-spotify-wrapped-2022-for-third-consecutive-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">top artist for three consecutive years<\/a>, beginning in 2020. Since 2023, he has consistently ranked among the platform&rsquo;s top five artists for music streaming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Concha says money led Bad Bunny to break his rule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2492893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ap22313476625489-e1759243000110.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[64284,52093,4755,25824,42223],"class_list":["post-2492892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bad-bunny","tag-joe-concha","tag-money","tag-motivation","tag-music-industry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ap22313476625489-e1759243000110.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492896,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492892\/revisions\/2492896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}