he College Football Playoff National Championship in Florida was more of a family affair for US President Donald Trump on Monday (US time). The POTUS emerged as the most prominent presence in the stands on the Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday, prompting a thunderous response from the in-person audience at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.

Ivanka Trump, the MAGA leader’s rarely seen daughter, also stepped back into the spotlight with her first joint appearance with the president for the first time in months. Their father-daughter outing alongside other family members (Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, and the US president’s grandchildren – Don Jr’s daughter Kai, Eric’s daughter Carolina and son Luke, and Ivanka’s son Theo) at the Indiana Hoosiers vs comes after Trump’s long weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

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Others accompanying the Trump family were US State Secretary Marco Rubio, a vocal Miami fan, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and longtime advisor Boris Epshteyn. Elsewhere, US Congressman Rep Carlos A Gimenez was also spotted posing alongside Trump for a photo at the College Football Championship in Miami.

Cheered or booed at College Football Playoff National Championship? White House speaks out 

A loud roar erupted as soon as Donald Trump was shown in a suite at the Miami football event. While various comments on X suggested that the POTUS was heavily booed after his jumbotron cameo, others claimed otherwise.

US sports business reporters, including Front Office Sports’ Amanda Christovich, shared other takes on the matter, suggesting it was “equal parts cheer and boo.”

As anticipated, MAGA-aligning pages simply observed “patriots cheered” Trump on at the Miami match. On the contrary, people on the far-left like Democrat influencer Harry Sisson pressed that Trump was booed at the championship showdown.

Comments like “BIG Cheer-out for Trump when he is shown during the National Anthem of the college National Championship Game” and “The whole crowd just cheered massively for are Alpha Male President Trump” took over the timeline.

The White House did its bit in setting the record straighter by sharing the word about Trump’s football outing this week. “President Donald J. Trump receives massive cheers from the Hard Rock Stadium crowd during the national anthem at the @CFBPlayoff National Championship,” the official White House X account posted the video of the big cameo.

Even the official White House Rapid Response account shared the same news, writing: “The crowd at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami roars as @POTUS is shown during the Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Why ‘Trump booed’ keeps trending on X

Before the cheers vs boos clash related to the Monday game went viral on X, netizens had been going around and sharing a different video of the president being booed at a previous game.

A video flashing the text “Trump booed yesterday at Washington vs Detroit Game 01/17/2026. He wants Washington new stadium named after him” just ahead of the Miami match. However, a basic fact-check and even google search confirms that there was no such game on January 17, 2026.

While the boos were very much real, the video actually dates back to November 2025, when Trump became the first sitting US president in nearly 50 years to attend a regular-season NFL game. The game in question captured the clash between the Detroit Lion and the Washington Commanders.