A left-wing influencer claimed in a viral Super Bowl Sunday X post that halftime show performer Bad Bunny handed his Grammy to a young boy detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — only to later admit he did not.
Ed Krassenstein wrote on the platform late Sunday that the “little boy who Bad Bunny handed his Grammy to at the Super Bowl” was 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, an Ecuadorian who became a symbol of left-wing opposition to ICE in January after federal agents detained him in Minnesota while targeting his father. However, the influencer — who has over a million X followers — conceded just over an hour later that the Puerto Rican rapper had in reality lent his award to a child actor, Lincoln Fox, during his polarizing Spanish-language Super Bowl LX halftime show performance.
In his original post, Krassenstein included the well-known image of Ramos with a blue rabbit hat and Spider-Man backpack side-by-side alongside the image of the child, later revealed to be Fox, holding the Grammy. “Amazing!” the 41-year-old influencer added at the end of the post.
X’s Community Notes feature fact-checked Krassenstein’s post citing Fox’s Sunday night Instagram post confirming that he was indeed the temporary recipient of the Grammy.
“I’ll remember this day forever! @badbunnypr – it was my truest honor,” the child actor, who is reportedly of Argentinean and Egyptian descent, wrote in the post, which also shows video footage of him holding the award.
“UPDATE: There are conflicting reports on whether this really was Liam Ramos or if it was a child that was intended to represent Liam Ramos,” Krassenstein wrote in a reply to himself 24 minutes after he made his original post. This reply received the same Community Note as the influencer’s original post.
Just shy of an hour after that, Krassenstein added in another reply to himself, “UPDATE: according to the latest reports the young child was Lincoln Fox — a child actor.”
Despite it being determined to be factually incorrect, Krassenstein’s original post — in which he stated the boy in the show was Ramos — was still live on X as of Monday at 9:30 a.m. EST. It had amassed over 327,000 “likes” by the time.
Krassenstein did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Martínez Ocasio, told Fox, “always believe in yourself” in Spanish, as he handed him the award, NPR reported. Spokespersons for both the rapper and the Ramos family separately confirmed to the outlet that the boy detained by ICE did not participate in the halftime show.
Martínez Ocasio is a prominent critic of President Donald Trump and his administration, especially regarding immigration enforcement.
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ICE out,” the Puerto Rican artist said during a speech accepting one of his three 2026 Grammy awards. “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens, we are humans and we are Americans.”
Martínez Ocasio’s criticism of Trump dates back to the president’s first administration. During a 2017 benefit concert for hurricane victims, the rapper wore a shirt stating, “Are you a twitterer or President?” He endorsed failed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election on the same day insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made an off-color joke about Puerto Rico during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.
Despite speculation that the rapper’s halftime show would be political, Trump or ICE were not mentioned or directly alluded to at any time during the performance.
Both Democratic politicians and media figures widely cited Ramos’ case to highlight their opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies in recent weeks.
In a Jan. 22 reply, Democratic California Rep. Jimmy Gomez’s X post alleging that ICE used the boy as “bait” to arrest his father, the Department of Homeland Security wrote that “ICE did NOT target a child. The child was ABANDONED.”
“On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration,” DHS wrote. “As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot—abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias.”
The same day, Vice President JD Vance told a reporter that the five-year-old “was not arrested” and that instead “his dad was an illegal alien and then when they [ICE] went to arrest his illegal alien father, the father ran.”
“So, the story is that ICE detained a five-year-old. Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child freeze to death?” Vance said, regarding Ramos, who ICE took into custody during a late January day in Minnesota. “Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America?”
Krassenstein, along with his twin brother Brian — who himself has just shy of one million X followers — is well known for his opposition to Trump. X, then known as Twitter, permanently banned both brothers from the platform in 2019 for “operating multiple fake accounts” and “purchasing account interactions.” However, the platform reinstated both brothers in December 2022, shortly after billionaire Elon Musk purchased it.
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