Bad Bunny Uses a Recording Mimicking Trump's Voice to Deliver a Pro-Immigrant Message in ‘Nuevayol' Video
Toward the end of the video, a voice that sounds a lot like Donald Trump's bellows out of a Seventies radio and says the following: 'I made a mistake. I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. I mean the United States. I know America is the whole continent. I want to say that this country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.' (Rolling Stone reached out to representatives from Bad Bunny's team to clarify if the voice was meant to be Donald Trump's.)
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It's a powerful message at a time when immigrants across the U.S. are being forcefully targeted and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Thursday, Congress passed Trump's so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill' which will supercharge ICE's power with 10,000 new ICE agents and 100,000 new detention beds. Earlier this week, the Trump administration unveiled a new immigrant detention facility in Florida, which they have dubbed 'Aligator Alcatraz.'
This isn't Bad Bunny's first time denouncing ICE. In June, the Latin star called out ICE and shared a video of what seemed to be ICE officers detaining a group of people in the streets. 'Those motherfuckers are in these cars, RAV-4s,' Bad Bunny says in a video, speaking in Spanish over footage of law enforcement appearing to take some folks into unmarked cars on Avenida Pontezuela in Carolina, Puerto Rico. 'They came here… Sons of bitches, instead of letting the people alone and working.'
The 'Nuevayol' music video isn't Bad Bunny's first time taking on Trump either. Last fall, in the middle of the 2024 presidential election, the star shared a powerful video in support of his homeland following comedian Tony Hinchliffe calling the territory 'garbage' at a Trump rally.
Bad Bunny's Puerto Rican pride is unwavering. Earlier this year, the Latin superstar released an album celebrating a range of Caribbean genres, Debí Tirar Más Fotos. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Bad Bunny detailed his fearless approach when it comes to tackling politics in his music: 'People are used to artists getting big and mainstream and not expressing themselves about these things, or if they do, talking about it in a super careful way,' he said. 'But I'm going to talk, and whoever doesn't like it doesn't have to listen to me.'
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