White House 'busted using sneaky trick' to hide crowds booing Trump

Thomas Kika
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President Donald Trump gestures as he attends the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci

President Donald Trump continues to face waves of boos at public appearances, but as The Daily Beast noted in a new report, the White House has been "busted using a sneaky trick" to try to hide this fact online.

Trump most recently made an appearance alongside First Lady Melania Trump for the opening night of the musical, Chicago, on Tuesday at the Kennedy Center, which he has been relentlessly trying to reshape after his own image by unofficially adding his name to it and shuttering it for two years to make way for renovations.

While some cheers could be heard as Trump waved to the crowd, The Daily Beast noted that "loud jeers punctuated the cheers as he took his seat." The report also cited a tweet from a reporter with the conservative outlet The Daily Caller, who claimed that there were "Some boos, but the crowd drowned them out with more cheers."

"However, in [reporter Reagan] Reese’s video the boos and jeering were much more evident," The Daily Beast explained. "It appears that there were two warring factions, with the cheering camp trying to drown out those who were booing."

When a clip of the moment was shared to X by the White House's official "Rapid Response 47" account, the crowd reaction "sounded much more jovial than in other clips from the evening," suggesting that the video was edited to alter the sound, removing the boos and adding more cheers.

The report highlighted another example of a Trump ally attempting to spin the crowd reaction, with "MAGA journalist" Eric Daugherty offering an even more hyperbolic take in a post to X, claiming that the audience "ABSOLUTELY ERUPTED” when Trump entered alongside the first lady.

“The man of the hour everywhere he goes,” he wrote.

The video he shared, however, sounded similar to Reese's, with boos drowning out any cheers that could be heard.

A report about the situation from Mediaite called it "a Rorschach test, as several clips of the entrance circulated on social media and users offered their own takes on the reaction." The outlet highlighted a post from Patriot Takes, a notable left-wing account, which observed simply, "Trump getting booed at the Kennedy Center tonight."

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