Trump Learned JD Vance Got Booed At Winter Olympics And Had A Wild Reaction
Hilary Hanson
Sat, February 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM UTC
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U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the news that Vice President JD Vance was booed at the Winter Olympics in Milan with a head-scratching claim about his veep.
Video footage from Friday’s opening ceremony showed Vance and wife Usha met with what one Australian broadcaster described as “a lot of boos” from the crowd.
Aboard Air Force One later that day, a reporter asked Trump if he had heard about the booing, prompting a look of surprise from the president.
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“No, I didn’t see that,” Trump replied in video from Forbes Breaking News. “Is that true, is that right? It’s surprising, ’cause people like him.”
That’s when Trump made his curious statement.
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“Well, I mean he is in a foreign country, in all fairness. But, uh, he doesn’t get booed in this country.”
Vance has been booed in the United States on multiple occasions. He was booed at a firefighters’ union conference in Boston in 2024, during Trump’s presidential campaign. He was booed by protesters in Vermont when he traveled there with his family last March for a ski vacation. He was booed by the audience at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the same month. And he was seen being ruthlessly heckled and, yes, booed, in viral video clips from Washington, D.C.,’s Union Station last August.