President Donald Trump told reporters he was surprised that vice-president J.D. Vance was greeted by a chorus of boos at the Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony in Milan, Italy, on Friday.
“That’s surprising because people like him,” Trump told a reporter while aboard his Air Force One en route to Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday.
“He’s in a foreign country, in all fairness,” he added, after specifying that he did not see the booing of the vice-president himself. “He doesn’t get booed in this country.”
The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics kicked off on Friday in Milan’s famous San Siro stadium with performances from singers Andrea Bocelli and Mariah Carey.
But the presence of Vance at the ceremony appeared to ruffle some feathers, with the cameras capturing booing and whistling, mixed with applause, when it focused on the vice-president and his wife, Usha.
In the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) feed, broadcaster Adrienne Arsenault said, “Oop…those are a lot of boos for him …whistling, jeering, some applause. Not a long shot for him on the screen there.”
According to an average compiled by RealClearPolitics, more Americans (49.7 percent) have an unfavorable opinion of Vance than a favorable one (42.0 percent). That’s a little better than how the president is faring: according to RealClearPolitics, 54.0 percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, while 42.8 percent have a favorable one.
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