{"id":278632,"date":"2026-02-07T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/278632\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:47:09","slug":"nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/278632\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC appears to cut crowd\u2019s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast | Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics<\/a> in Milan on Friday, although American viewers watching NBC\u2019s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.<\/p>\n

As speedskater Erin Jackson led Team USA into the San Siro stadium she was greeted by cheers. But when the TV cameras cut to Vance and his wife, Usha, there were boos, jeers and a smattering of applause from the crowd<\/a>. The reaction was shown on Canadian broadcaster CBC\u2019s feed, with one commentator saying: \u201cThere is the vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha \u2013 oops, those are not \u2026 uh \u2026 those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian\u2019s Sean Ingle was also at the ceremony and noted the boos<\/a>, as did USA Today\u2019s Christine Brennan<\/a>. However, on the NBC broadcast the boos were not heard or remarked<\/a> upon when Vance appeared on screen, with the commentary team simply saying \u201cJD Vance\u201d. That didn\u2019t stop footage of the boos<\/a> being circulated and shared on social media in the US. The White House posted a clip<\/a> of Vance applauding on NBC\u2019s broadcast without any boos.<\/p>\n

Friday was not the first time there have been moves to stop US viewers from witnessing dissent against the Trump administration. At September\u2019s US Open, tournament organizers asked broadcasters<\/a> not to show the crowd\u2019s reaction to Donald Trump, who attended the men\u2019s final. Part of the message read: \u201cWe ask all broadcasters to refrain from showing any disruptions or reactions in response to the president\u2019s attendance in any capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday in Milan, hundreds of people protested against the presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at this year\u2019s Olympics. The US state department has said that several federal agencies, including ICE, will be at the Games to help protect visiting Americans. The state department said the ICE unit in Italy is separate from those involved in the immigration crackdown in the United States.<\/p>\n

Before the ceremony, freestyle skier Hunter Hess said he had mixed emotions about representing the US in the current political climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s obviously a lot going on that I\u2019m not the biggest fan of,\u201d he said. \u201cJust because I\u2019m wearing the flag doesn\u2019t mean I represent everything that\u2019s going on in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance was not the only person to garner a negative reaction. The four athletes representing Israel were greeted with boos as well as cheers when they appeared for the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-278632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}