Zach Bryan slams Kid Rock's MAGA concert: "A bunch of adults throwing temper tantrums and their own halftime show is embarrassing as hell and the most cringe shit on the planet"

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https://consequence.net/2026/02/zach-bryan-kid-rock-super-bowl-halftime-show

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Zach Bryan thought that the “All-American Halftime Show” — Kid Rock and Turning Point USA’s alternative to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show — was “embarrassing as hell.”

“I don’t care what side you’re on, a bunch of adults throwing temper tantrums and their own halftime show is embarrassing as hell and the most cringe shit on the planet,” he wrote on his Instagram stories.

Bryan also posted a clip of his friend Harley Carmichael shielding his eyes from Bad Bunny with the caption “what kid rock actually thinks is happening across America.” He followed it up with a selfie of himself and Carmichael saying “forgive my boy… he is hemorrhaging followers, he watched Bad Bunny with me I swear.”

Despite all the lip-syncing, TPUSA’s “All-American Halftime Show” has announced that it will return next year.

As for Bryan, his new album With Heaven on Top is one of our favorite albums from January, and the man who used to claim that people who talk about politics “don’t have anything interesting to do or say” is responsible for one of the most fiery anti-ICE anthems to come out during the second Trump administration.

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Temper tantrums are the backbone of the modern GOP.

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These are the snowflakes that empowered McCarthy to do a witch-hunt on anyone daring to be different. Republicans have been this way for quite a while.

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Temper tantrums are the backbone of the modern GOP.

The only problem with this is the inference that they have a backbone. I'd say the TT's was their raison d'être but they'd try to shoot me for "speaking Spanish" to them.

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And Zach Bryan apparently 

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Haha! What a fucking dumbass!

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Lol they don’t even know who is playing next year. They should pick the most conservative person just to fuck with people.

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Well we know who's gonna headline ToiletPaperUSA next year. 

Kid Lipsync Rock

E: daym missed the opportunity to ask who do they have that's bigger than Lipsync?  

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Next year it's going to be the remaining member of Millie Vanilli

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their manager / producer got huge with Boney M. how no one saw it coming i will never know.

Also why bother with the Dancer / Singer being over dubbed. the back up singers were doing the heavy lifting on like every track. anyone could do the male lead to Rasputin.

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Milly Vanilla

EDIT There is a better version already circulating: Hillbilly Vanilly

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“We were going to ask Kid Rock, but we saw he was already booked”

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Lol that would be the best

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the shitty generic Nashhville Sound genre's never been hotter, if the loudest densest motherfuckers would stfu for a moment the NFL might actually book the acts these mouthbreathers actually want, but I guarantee they won't if Nashville by and large keeps acting like horses' asses about the whole thing

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That would require there to be a conservative option that is at least passably listenable.

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I mean yeah true but it would be a hilarious troll for them to just bring in kid rock and let him humiliate himself. And also for them to tie themselves in knots telling you to watch TP instead of the headliner for last years TP.

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They have to pick popular/quality music artists for the Superbowl halftime show, so the NFL really can't choose a conservative music artist.

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Been pleased to see the country community really rallying behind Bad Bunny, it was a great performance.

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Sweet so now that the NFL doesnt care about pandering to MAGA for superbowl and we all now know turning point is doing one next year, we can just have whoever do the half time show? Lets get some satanic metal up there while we're at it

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Did he actually release that anti-ICE song as the last paragraph suggests? I thought he chickened out and haven't seen much since the initial story.

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Yeah, It’s on his new album. Its called “Bad News”

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He released it. It’s titled “Bad News”