The All-American Halftime Show (also styled as the The All American Halftime Show) was a 2026 online concert produced by American right-wing nonprofit Turning Point USA (TPUSA). It was announced as an alternative to the Super Bowl LX halftime show headlined by Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, and streamed at the same time as the official halftime broadcast on February 8, 2026. Reviews for the event were highly polarized. Although some commended the performances, many critics compared it unfavorably to the official halftime broadcast. Public scrutiny focused heavily on Kid Rock, whose performance was widely derided after viewers noted apparent lip syncing problems. According to TPUSA, the show received at least 20 million total views across the internet. == Background == On September 20, 2025, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny was officially announced as the headliner for the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show by the NFL in partnership with Apple Music and Jay-Z's Roc Nation. == Announcement == On October 9, 2025, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) announced that it would host the All-American Halftime Show as an alternative, describing it as an entertainment option celebrating "American culture, freedom, and faith", aimed at audiences seeking an alternative. TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said that the event had "no other agenda than faith, family, and freedom". Organizers announced a lineup featuring performers such as Kid Rock, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, and Gabby Barrett. The show was scheduled to stream concurrently with the Super Bowl LX halftime broadcast at around 8 p.m. Eastern time, with the broadcast starting at 7:30 p.m. on various online platforms and broadcast partners, including social media channels and conservative media outlets. The official website state that it could be viewed on Sinclair Broadcast Group's Charge! and The National News Desk, DailyWire+, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Real America's Voice, One America News Network, and NTD America, along with authorized free streams on TPUSA's official YouTube and Rumble accounts. An attempt to simulcast the feed via X was halted shortly before it began due to what TPUSA dubbed "licensing restrictions". == Performance == The performance was pre-taped in Atlanta, Georgia, in a studio with about 200 people in the audience. Prior to the performances, a video of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was played to open the performance referencing the department's support for the performances and the 250th anniversary of the United States. Blake Neff, a producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, stated that the there was over five million live viewers on the TPUSA YouTube stream, which had increased to about 16 million views shortly before midnight after the Super Bowl. After his performance, Kid Rock told viewers that they "...can give your life to Jesus and he'll give you a second chance. 'Til you can't" in reference to the Cody Johnson song "'Til You Can't", for which Kid Rock performed this song under his birth name Robert Ritchie. On a screen behind him, were displayed photos of Charlie Kirk and his widow Erika followed by Bible verse Isaiah 6:8 "Here am I, send me." === Set list === Source: Spencer Waasdorp – "The Star-Spangled Banner", played on electric guitar Brantley Gilbert – "Real American" and "Dirt Road Anthem" Gabby Barrett – "I Hope" and "The Good Ones" Lee Brice – "Drinking Class", "Country Nowadays", "Hard to Love" Kid Rock – "Bawitdaba" Antonio and Allison Marin – Cello and violin interlude Kid Rock (billed as Robert Ritchie) – "'Til You Can't" == Reception == In the days before the Super Bowl, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of Donald Trump, "I think the president would much prefer a Kid Rock performance over Bad Bunny." However, video footage from Trump's Super Bowl gathering at his Mar-a-Lago estate revealed that Bad Bunny's halftime performance was broadcast, and not the All-American Halftime Show. YouGov assessed that 35% of Americans were more interested in viewing Bad Bunny's halftime show, whereas 28% were more interested in the All-American Halftime Show, with most Democrats preferring the official show (63% to 7%) and a majority of Republicans favoring TPUSA's show (55% to 13%). The All-American Halftime Show received as many as 6.1 million concurrent viewers on TPUSA's YouTube channel. In her recap for Billboard, Melinda Newman summarized the performance as "a respectful, enjoyable presentation that, as Kid Rock had promised, appealed to the conservative base", viewing Brice's song as the most political moment of the event. Newman felt that the show "undoubtedly didn't go far right enough" for Make America Great Again supporters and likely Trump himself, whereas the far left would be unable to ridicule any moments aside from the performers involved. Concluding her recap, Newman wrote: "It was a solid 15-minute presentation. They played it safe and sometimes that's ok." Writing for Variety, Chris Willman noted an absence of mentions of Bad Bunny, concluding: "Rather than come off as a protest event, the 35-minute program offered a set of mild, largely non-political performances that could have been mistaken for a vintage CMT or Nashville Network special—even from Kid Rock, who was on his very best behavior during a quick two-song appearance. William Earl, also of Variety, was much more critical of the event, which he derided as "a slapdash night of music that seemed half-hearted from the start", concluding: "Unfortunately, the All-American Halftime Show was unable to evoke much more than a shrug, with halfhearted pop-country performances that showed the limitations of booking a big show with minimal talent." Earl unfavorably compared the event to Bad Bunny's halftime show, noting that whereas Bad Bunny's performance concluded with the message "The only thing more powerful than hate is love", TPUSA's broadcast ended with the words "Get involved" and a QR code asking for money. Reviewing the show for The Hollywood Reporter, Ethan Millman said the performers "delivered nearly half an hour of religiously charged, star-spangled country music veering on jingoism and cringe." Millman noted that as the Super Bowl is the most-viewed television event of the year, and Bad Bunny has 90.5 million Spotify listeners to Kid Rock's 5.3 million, the idea that the All-American Halftime Show could rival the Super Bowl was "dubious at best." Miles Klee of Wired opined that "TPUSA's star-spangled jamboree wasn't particularly message-driven nor even provocative", as well as noting that the release of millions of Epstein files prior to the show led to the resurfacing of lyrics in Kid Rock's 2001 song "Cool, Daddy Cool" about having sex with underage girls. Vanity Fair labeled the show "exceptionally boring", calling it "a spectacular failure" even when viewed as "a 35 minute ad for Turning Point USA" and noting that none of the prominent voices expected to champion the event like Trump made any mention of it. Some observers criticized the performance of Kid Rock, with commentators and social media users questioning whether he was lip syncing portions of his set. Close-up footage suggested a lack of synchronization between his mouth movements and the recorded audio, and was noted by Billboard, Mediaite, Consequence, and The Daily Beast. In an interview with Laura Ingraham after the Super Bowl, Kid Rock said that he told the production crew, "You guys gotta work on that sync, it's off." === Viewership === The show garnered a peak of 5.7 million to over 6 million concurrent viewers on YouTube, with additional viewership of 3 million views on Rumble. On the Fox News program One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said that the show received at least 20 million total views across all the social media platforms which carried it. == References == == External links == Official website All-American Halftime Show livestream on YouTube