New York Governor Kathy Hochul was met with loud boos from the crowd during the opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup on Thursday.
The Democrat governor – a vocal critic of Donald Trump – was shown on screen during a welcome speech at the event at Bethpage Black on Long Island.
But as she was introduced, large sections of the crowd responded with audible jeers.
‘Your friend and mine, Governor Kathy Hochul,’ said host Carson Daly, who stood on stage while a camera cut to Hochul in the crowd.
‘Governor, thank you for being here. And thank you to your team too for getting us ready for the Ryder Cup in New York.’
Despite the friendly welcome, the crowd’s reaction was unmistakably hostile.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul was met with loud boos from the crowd during the opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup
As Hochul was shown on the broadcast, loud boos were heard ringing round Bethpage Black
Earlier this year, Hochul said in an interview with NPR that she will be ‘leading the resistance’ against Trump’s second administration.
Her announcement came after Trump frustrated the New York leader by posting a message on social media announcing that he killed Manhattan’s congestion pricing. ‘Congestion pricing is dead.
‘Manhattan, and all of New York, is saved,’ Trump wrote before calling himself a ‘king.’
Hochul said she ‘offered up an olive branch’ to Trump, proposing joint infrastructure projects, like redoing New York City’s Penn Station.
‘But once you draw first blood on us, we’re coming back hard,’ she said of Trump.
‘I will be leading the resistance on policies like these where you’re hurting New Yorkers directly,’ the 66-year-old governor shared. ‘This is our decision, not yours.’
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