The View's Ana Navarro says Trump will sign order 'banning Black people from halftime'
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Navarro also claimed that Black people on her social media feeds were calling Lamar's show "Blackity Black Black" during the event.
By Joey Nolfi
Ana Navarro on The View; Kendrick Lamar performs in the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 9, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Ana Navarro on 'The View'; Kendrick Lamar performing at Super Bowl 2025. Photo: ABC; Kevin Sabitus/Getty
The View cohost Ana Navarro thinks Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show made enough of an impact on President Donald Trump that it could inspire swift political action.
After Lamar took the field Sunday night at the Caesars Superdome (where Trump also watched the big game) to perform a politically tinged medley of his songs (also including the supposed Drake diss track "Not Like Us" featuring cameos by Samuel L. Jackson and Drake's ex, Serena Williams), Navarro said on Monday's live episode of the talk show she thinks the whole set might've rubbed Trump the wrong (or, arguably, right) way.
"You know I don't do sports, you know I don't do football. So, I wasn't watching the game. But, listen, I think today Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning Black people from halftime," Navarro said as the show's audience laughed.
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"You remember last week we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term 'end racism' from the end zone? Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump," she continued. "When I saw Samuel L. Jackson dressed as a Black Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar, who then had an entire formation of all Black people making a U.S. flag, listen, this much I know: all the Black people on my feed were like, 'Ooh, this is Blackity Black Black.' All the racists who somehow get in, they were hopping mad. If the racists are mad, I'm happy as a clam."
Navarro's assessment followed Lamar's set, which included himself standing amid dancers wearing red, white, and blue while forming the American flag, as well as the aforementioned Jackson narrating the segment while dressed as an interpretation of Uncle Sam.
Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl 2025 halftime show performance. Gregory Shamus/Getty
Trump also made headlines out of the Super Bowl after he shared video of attendees booing Grammy-winning artist (and girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce) Taylor Swift, who attended the game to cheer on her boyfriend, while seated next to rapper Ice Spice and friend Ashley Avignone. In his post, Trump included a video of the crowd, in contrast, cheering for him at the top of the game.
In the end, the real winners of the night were the Philadelphia Eagles, who crushed the Chiefs with a final score of 40-22. The game also kicked off with an emotional tribute performance headed by Lady Gaga, who, after an introduction from Michael Strahan and Tom Brady, played her Top Gun: Maverick single "Hold My Hand" on the piano on Bourbon Street, where the group was joined by first responders and a gospel choir to commemorate the victims of the deadly January terrorist attack in the same location.
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