US President Donald Trump has responded to news that Vice President Vance was booed at the Milan Winter Olympics with a puzzling statement about the vice president.
Video footage from Friday’s opening ceremony showed Vance and his wife Usha receiving what one ABC described as “a lot of boos” from the crowd.
Later in the day, aboard Air Force One, a reporter asked Trump if he had heard about the boos, and the president looked surprised.
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The moment President Donald Trump hears the news that Vice President Vance was booed at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Samuel Colum/Getty Images
“No, I don’t see that,” Trump replied in a video for Forbes Breaking News. “Is this true? It’s surprising because people like him.”
That’s when Trump made his bizarre remarks.
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“Well, to be fair, I mean he’s overseas. But, uh, he doesn’t get booed in this country.”
Vance has been booed repeatedly in the United States. In 2024, while Trump was running for president, he was booed at a firefighters union meeting in Boston. Last March, he was booed by protesters while on a ski vacation with his family in Vermont. That same month, he was booed by the audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Last August, in viral video footage at Union Station in Washington, D.C., he was seen being mercilessly heckled and, yes, booed.
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