Martina Navratilova lately took umbrage at Home Speaker Mike Johnson for his pointed feedback in the direction of Dangerous Bunny headlining subsequent 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present. The Republican Social gathering member piling on the Latin hip-hop icon, who’s a authorized US citizen, actually irked the 59-time Main titlist.
Earlier on Wednesday (October 8), Johnson was requested by a journalist on the White Home to provide his ideas on Dangerous Bunny’s Tremendous Bowl LX gig subsequent February. In response, the 56th speaker of america Home of Representatives insisted that the Puerto Rican had “no enchantment” to the Individuals watching the halftime present again dwelling. He additionally claimed that nation singer Lee Greenwood ought to’ve obtained the chance as a substitute.
“I did not even know who Dangerous Bunny was, appears like a horrible choice. Properly, it appears like he’s not somebody who appeals to a broader viewers, and I feel there’s so many eyes on the Tremendous Bowl, a number of younger, impressionable kids. For my part, you’d [rather] have Lee Greenwood doing that, not any individual like this,” Mike Johnson stated on Wednesday.
The above remarks seemingly irked Martina Navratilova as she quote-reposted the above video on her personal X (previously Twitter) account afterward Wednesday. The American legend stored her retort concise, expressing confusion at Johnson propping an obscure nation act to take the place of Dangerous Bunny, who has a whopping 113 entries within the Billboard Scorching 100 listing to this point.
“Who’s Lee Greenwood?” Martina Navratilova requested rhetorically.
For what it is value, this is not the primary time Navratilova has reacted to feedback made by a GOP member.
“I name it as I see it… an adjudicated rapist” – Martina Navratilova on US President Donald Trump
Martina Navratilova, who is understood to be a Democrat, has by no means missed a step in criticizing forty seventh US President Donald Trump. Earlier in February, the 68-year-old went towards her anti-trans inclusion in sports activities coverage to defend governor of Maine Janet Mills.
Again then, Mills met Trump’s ire for not following his government order of disallowing trans athletes from taking part in girls’s faculty and high-school sports activities. In an extended X put up, the 68-year-old called the President a trans hater, a bootlicker, and an “adjudicated rapist”.
“Bye cultist. I name it as I see it. I don’t agree with the governor of Maine coverage however trump has no enterprise threatening her like that. Additionally trump is an adjudicated rapist so not precisely a defender of women- he simply hates all trans individuals. Aside from his bootlicker [Caitlyn] Jenner,” Martina Navratilova wrote on her X deal with in February 2025.
Throughout her profession spanning extra practically 4 a long time. Martina Navratilova received 18 Main titles in singles, 31 in girls’s doubles, and 10 in combined doubles, whereas additionally spending 332 weeks on the high of the singles rankings.
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