Melania Trump booed throughout speech at Baltimore youth summit

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published 27 November 2019

First lady Melania Trump was booed multiple times on Tuesday as she addressed the crowd at an event in Baltimore.

The B'More Youth Summit aims to bring awareness to the opioid crisis in the United States, and throughout her speech, several members of the audience booed and spoke over her, CNN reports. This was the first time Trump has been booed on her own, without her husband by her side.

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President Trump has disparaged Baltimore on several occasions, calling the city a "rat and rodent infested mess" and somewhere "no human being would want to live." Catherine Garcia

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.