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Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off Tour to Defend America

February 18, 2026 at 11:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen announced a “No Kings”-themed arena tour this spring, “in celebration and in defense of America,” Variety reports.

Springsteen’s tour comes in the wake of the release of the ICE protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” last month.

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Trump Posts Photos of Himself with Black Celebrities

February 11, 2026 at 1:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump embarked on a bizarre posting spree touting his friendship with Black celebrities following his racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama, the Daily Beast reports.

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Republicans Want Probe of Bad Bunny’s ‘Illegal’ Lyrics

February 10, 2026 at 6:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Republicans are calling on the FCC “to investigate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, suggesting the content and lyrics of the Puerto Rican star’s show were ‘illegal,’” Axios reports.

“Many of the explicit lyrics cited by Bad Bunny critics are literal translations of his songs but were not actually performed during the February 8 halftime show.”

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Kid Rock’s Comments About Underage Girls Go Viral

February 10, 2026 at 7:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Kid Rock’s alternative Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night resulted in increased scrutiny surrounding some of the rock star’s past comments,” Mediaite reports.

“Many users online pointed to a 2001 song Kid Rock released called Cool, Daddy Cool. In the song, Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, sings about liking underage girls.”

One of the lyrics in the song: “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see. Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory).”

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GOP Lawmaker Wants Investigation Into Bad Bunny

February 10, 2026 at 7:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) called for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance, citing concerns about its alleged “explicit and indecent content,” the Daily Beast reports.

Said Ogles: “The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air.”

He added: “And if that weren’t outrageous enough, the performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.”

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Bad Bunny Uses Joy to Put Out Political Firestorm

February 9, 2026 at 6:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Bad Bunny delivered a pointed message in Spanish to millions of Americans watching the Super Bowl on Sunday night: ‘We’re still here,’” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“In a history-making halftime show performed almost entirely in Spanish, the Puerto Rican star paid tribute to his heritage and the many countries—from Brazil to Mexico—whose people have come to shape the modern-day U.S.”

“Just a week ago, Bad Bunny denounced Immigration and Customs Enforcement while accepting a Grammy award, stoking further political furor from conservatives ahead of the Super Bowl. But on the halftime stage, he offered up a buoyant celebration of Latino culture.”

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Trump Slams Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

February 8, 2026 at 10:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump took to social media during the Super Bowl to criticize Bad Bunny’s halftime show, Variety reports.

Said Trump: “The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World. This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History!”

Rolling Stone: Trump got Bad Bunny’s message — and he didn’t like it.

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Trump Rips U.S. Olympic Skier

February 8, 2026 at 11:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump ripped Hunter Hess on Sunday after the U.S. skier spoke out against the political climate in his home country at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan earlier this week, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics. If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this.”

Filed Under: Celebrities, White House

Democrats Want the Bad Bunny Playbook

February 8, 2026 at 10:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “The world is watching for Bad Bunny to make a political statement at the Super Bowl. Democrats are watching closely to figure out how to make their own.”

“Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the Puerto Rican recording artist known globally by his stage name, has created a pop culture phenomenon that will converge at a historic halftime show performance at the Super Bowl tonight when the New England Patriots play the Seattle Seahawks. And while his invitation triggered a harsh backlash on the right from the president on down, it’s also marking a major inflection point for Hispanic Americans of all backgrounds.”

“Tonight’s stage may prove to be Bad Bunny’s biggest chance to move the dial.”

“There’s an opportunity here, Democrats told your authors, to turn Bad Bunny’s cultural phenomenon into a political one, right as the party is mounting its strongest resistance to President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda — and with months to go before the midterms to make amends with Latino voters who have left their tent.”

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Bad Bunny Isn’t Toning It Down

February 4, 2026 at 9:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “Bad Bunny has faced backlash from conservatives since being selected in September to headline the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday. Some right-wing influencers zeroed in on his criticism of Trump’s immigration agenda, his exclusively Spanish-language lyrics and his gender-fluid fashion choices. They also cast him as a foreigner, despite him being from Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory and makes him a U.S. citizen since birth. President Trump has called the halftime-show choice ‘absolutely ridiculous.’”

“Since then, Trump’s handling of immigration has begun to sour with voters, with polls showing a majority of Americans feel ICE has gone too far. Bad Bunny’s latest salvo is reigniting the culture-war controversy over his selection, and immigration policy more broadly, just days before the country’s most-watched sports event.”

Filed Under: Celebrities, Immigration

Quote of the Day

February 2, 2026 at 6:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C. Get ready Noah, I’m going to have some fun with you!”

— President Trump, on Truth Social, accusing Grammy Awards host Trevor Noah of making defamatory comments related to the Epstein files.

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Bruce Springsteen Pens New Trump Protest Song

January 28, 2026 at 5:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, criticizing President Trump’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city, the AP reports.

The lyrics of “Streets of Minneapolis,” describe how “a city aflame fought fire and ice ‘neath an occupier’s boots,” which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army.”

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Trump Won’t Attend Super Bowl

January 25, 2026 at 11:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump told the New York Post that he’s not going to the Super Bowl this year because “it’s just too far away.”

The game is being played in Santa Clara, CA.

Trump also slammed halftime performers Bad Bunny and Green Day: “I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”

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Musk to Make First Appearance at Davos

January 22, 2026 at 2:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Elon Musk is going to the World Economic Forum in Davos for the first time, after years of trading barbs with the organizers of the annual gathering of plutocrats, Bloomberg reports.

Musk has in the past called the annual gathering of the world’s elite “boring” and slammed the WEF as a body that’s “increasingly becoming an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want.”

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The Show Won’t Go On

December 30, 2025 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Chait: “President Trump’s threats against artists who decline to perform at the renamed Kennedy Center are ultimately hollow.”

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Trump Blames Murders on ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

December 15, 2025 at 10:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump asserted that filmmaker Rob Reiner’s very public opposition to him was the real cause of his murder.

Said Trump: “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

Chris Cillizza: “Trump’s response to Rob Reiner’s death proves he is a bad, bad person.”

Filed Under: Celebrities, White House

Cheryl Hines ‘Surprised’ to Lose Friends Over RFK Jr.

December 9, 2025 at 10:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Cheryl Hines has admitted she was “surprised” to see friends peel away over her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Daily Beast reports.

Said Hines: “I have some friends that I’ve known for 30 years… people just started dividing.”

She added: “Politics is so emotional to some people, and some people cannot separate… politics from… friendships.”

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Trump Left Voicemail After Ozzy Osborne’s Death

November 13, 2025 at 8:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ozzy Osbourne’s family has revealed that President Trump left a voicemail for Sharon Osbourne after the 76-year-old rock icon died from cardiac arrest in July, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Trump: “Ozzy was amazing, he was an amazing guy. I met him a few times and he was unique in every way and talented. So I just wanted to wish you the best and it’s a tough thing. I know how close you were and whatever I can do. Take care of yourself. Say hello to the family. Thanks. Bye.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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