Reporter hits Trump in the face with boom mic

President Donald Trump was tapped on the face with a microphone on Friday evening, and social media has a lot to say about it.

Trump, despite being visibly annoyed immediately after the reporter brushed his face with a microphone, joked that the woman responsible had just become “a big story.” However, one X account wondered how it was possible for the reporter to get so close to the POTUS in the first place. They even suggested that someone with more sinister motives could have used the “security failure” to their advantage.

Watch:

An assassin with a ricin tipped microphone (an amount of only a few specs of dust would suffice) could kill the president in this manner.

This is a security failure.

How many attempts on Donald Trump’s life must be made before Secret Service tightens up?pic.twitter.com/HlLjzPD2TL

— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) March 15, 2025

“An assassin with a ricin tipped microphone (an amount of only a few specs of dust would suffice) could kill the president in this manner. This is a security failure. How many attempts on Donald Trump’s life must be made before Secret Service tightens up?” the account posted alongside video of the brush.

“I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he did the right thing,” the president was saying of Senator Chuck Schumer, who crossed the aisle to vote for the six-month spending bill. “Really, I’m very impressed by that.”

“You’re concerned about the situation in Gaza,” the reporter asked. “What are the hopes now to get the hostages back?”

At this point the microphone rubs against the president’s face briefly, prompting visible discomfort before he cracks a joke.

“This is great television tonight,” Trump said. “She just became a big story tonight. Right? Did you see that?”

It didn’t take long for the moment to blow up on social media:

@realmuckraker INVESTIGATE THAT REPORTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

— Jeanette V Schlenker (@Jetnetschlenk) March 15, 2025

This was my thinking too…I was waiting for security to jump in but no…crickets instead. WTH?

— Gypsy (@fuller_ang71236) March 15, 2025

From a different angle you can see a girl behind the reporters holding a boom and apparently she couldn’t handle the weight of the boom.

— General™️ (@TheGeneral_0) March 15, 2025

She didn’t even say she was sorry!!! Just kept going!!

— Blysse (@x_audible) March 14, 2025

Get these DEI hires out of the proximity of the President, folks. No joke, they are a liability to everyone around them.

— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) March 14, 2025

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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