"Throughout Bad Bunny's mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word America kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities. Together we are all America, his football read, and he obviously meant it, in the largest, most hemispheric sense. Near the end, after shouting God bless America (his only words in English), Bad Bunny ran through a long list of countries in the western hemisphere."
"Ever since he was inaugurated, Trump has acted as if he owns the word America. Throughout his second inaugural address, he used it as a synonym for the US. (America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.) His America first foreign policy assumes the right to take possession of any part of the hemisphere he wants, whether it's the oilfields of Venezuela or the frozen tundra of Greenland."
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance broadened the meaning of America into a hemispheric, inclusive identity by listing western-hemisphere countries and invoking "God bless America." The performance prompted an angry reaction from Donald Trump, who sought to reassert 'America' as synonymous with the United States and criticized the halftime show as an affront to American greatness. Since inauguration, Trump has consistently used 'America' to mean the United States and promoted an America First foreign policy. That policy treats the hemisphere as within U.S. entitlement, invoking a repackaged Monroe Doctrine to justify influence over nations like Venezuela and Greenland.
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