Child Actor Who Received Grammy Award From Bad Bunny During Super Bowl Halftime Show Said He’ll Remember the Moment ‘Forever’

There were so many heart-warming highlights during Bad Bunny‘s energetic, body-moving halftime show at Sunday’s (Feb. 8) Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif. From his subtle nod to his birth name (Ocasio) on the back of the singer’s custom jersey, to his tributes to his home of Puerto Rico, the return of his famous casita (home) replica stage set and a cameo from Toñita, the owner of Brooklyn’s Caribbean Social Club, who Bunny famously shouted out in “NuevaYol.”

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Not to mention those Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin cameos.

But one of the most touching, cutest scenes came when Benito stopped at a domestic set where a child was watching TV with his family, only to be interrupted by the Grammy-winning musician, who promptly handed over a replica of one of his golden gramophones to the youngster. As it turns out, that child was five-year-old actor Lincoln Fox and he said the hand-over was a highlight of his young life.

“I’ll remember this day forever,” Fox wrote on Instagram alongside a video of the special moment. “@badbunnypr — it was my truest honor,” he added along with bunny, trophy and football emoji.

It was a good thing that Fox posted about his once-in-a-lifetime Super Bowl highlight because for a while on Sunday night some of the internet was convinced that Benito had handed the hardware over to Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old boy who was detained along with his father by ICE officers in Minnesota on Jan. 21 and immediately flown to a detention center in Texas before being returned on Feb. 1.

The revelation that actor Fox was the one cast in the role further cemented the halftime show’s determination to eschew partisan, divisive political messaging in favor of honoring every country in the Americas, capped by the words scrawled on a football Bad Bunny held up at the end: “Together We Are America.”

After months of the right-wing mediasphere, and the White House, denigrating the choice of Bad Bunny for Sunday’s halftime slot — including Donald Trump saying before the game that it was a “terrible choice… all it does is sow hatred,” and that he was “anti them,” in reference to Benito and openers Green Day — Bad Bunny’s set was all about bringing people together in a celebration of country, family and unity.

Trump, who has attended a number of major sports events and finals since starting his second term last year, reportedly skipped attending Sunday’s blow-out win by the Seattle Seahawks over the New England Patriots because, he claimed, it was “just too far away.” And while its unknown if he watched his pal Kid Rock’s glitchy, low-energy alternative Turning Point USA-sponsored All American Halftime Show livestream, Trump, naturally, weighed in with a negative review of the official halftime event.

“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site of the lively performance that CBS reported could set an all-time record for halftime ratings with more than 135 million viewers when the official numbers are released.