Did Turning Point USA's Super Bowl halftime show sell out the Atlanta Braves stadium in three hours after it was announced that Kid Rock would be performing? No, that's not true: The story originated on a satirical Facebook page that clearly labels its content as fake. The owner of the page is known for tricking conservatives into liking and sharing made-up content. There have been no announcements regarding who the performers will be or where the show by the late Charlie Kirk's organization will take place as of publication date.
The claim appeared in an October 12, 2025 post on the Facebook account America's Last Line of Defense (archived here). It opened with the caption, "Erika Kirk says they may add a second stadium and a Jumbotron for the West Coast." The post had an image of Kid Rock and Bad Bunny with the following text:
Turning Point USA's Super Bowl Halftime Show sells out Atlanta Braves Stadium In Three Hours After Announcing Kid Rock: "Don't be surprised if we double Bad Bunny's ratings"
Here is the image from the post:
(Image source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The post does not cite a news source or official announcement for the claim that the Turning Point USA Super Bowl halftime show sold out the Atlanta Braves stadium in three hours. The conservative organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk announced it would be hosting a show following backlash about the NFL Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny, who has been criticized for singing in Spanish.
The Turning Point USA X.com account @TPUSA (archived here) did not, at the time this was written, include any posts about the alternative halftime show they're hosting, other than the original one was posted on October 9, 2025. That post directs to the website AmericanHalftimeShow.com (archived here) but there are not any performers or a location listed as of October 13, 2025.
🚨 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
-- Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) October 9, 2025
It's true, Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show.
Performers and event details coming soon.
2.8.2026https://t.co/HBHGfXj6yU pic.twitter.com/HYUs6BqgVL
The American Halftime Show website lists the basic details of the event: It will be held February 8, 2026, and is "celebrating faith, family and freedom" as this screenshot shows:
(Image source: American Halftime Show website screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The website includes a survey for visitors to fill out where they can vote for the music genre they would like to see during the show as this screenshot shows:
(Image source: American Halftime Show website screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
There have been satirical posts on X.com (archived here) that show a list of the performers such as Kid Rock and featuring a guest appearance by "measles" as this screenshot shows:
(Images source: X.com account @wolfsnigs screenshot taken by Lead Stories)
Had the organization actually sold out the Atlanta Braves stadium for the show, it would have been major news. A Google search found no actual news reports of such a sell-out. Similarly, the Yahoo! News index of partner news sites and news services (archived here) showed similar fake social media posts and no legitimate news reports that the show had sold out.
As this screenshot shows, the image has a logo of "America's Last Line of Defense," and the homepage of the Facebook account (archived here) clearly states, "The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real."
(Image source: Facebook account @AmericasLastLineofDefense screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The Facebook page that posted the story about the Turning Point USA Super Bowl halftime show says it is run by "Busta Troll," which is the nickname of Christopher Blair.
Christopher Blair is a self-professed liberal from Maine who, for years, has run networks of websites set up to troll conservatives with made-up news items in order to get them to share his posts. A 2018 BBC profile called Blair "the Godfather of fake news," describing him as "one of the world's most prolific writers of disinformation."
The account is part of a network of satire websites and those pages display satire disclaimers and predominantly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Blair's stories have been widely copied by spammy, foreign website networks seeking to profit by spamming American conservatives with clickbait headlines.
