Harris bristles at Trump campaign after Beyoncé fails to perform at crowded rally: 'They lied to build a crowd'

Former President Trump on Saturday criticized Vice President Kamala Harris over an appearance with Beyoncé in which critics say Harris and the media intentionally misled viewers into believing the superstar would perform.

“Beyoncé went up and talked for a few minutes and then she left and the place went crazy,” Trump told a crowd in Michigan. “They all booed. They thought she would perform. My opponent stood up and started speaking and they booed her. That's crazy. They have to use people to get people to come.” And then they don’t send buses. We are making America great again.

Several media outlets, including MSNBC, promoted Beyonce's performance with Harris in Houston on Friday by saying the music superstar would perform, drawing criticism from conservatives who accused Harris of intentionally misleading the public. Beyoncé spoke but did not perform.

“They lied to build a crowd,” Trump senior adviser Tim Murtaugh said Posted on X

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Former President Trump criticized Vice President Harris over her appearance with Beyoncé

“Promising a concert by a major pop star and then failing to perform is the most perfect Harris campaign metaphor anyone could dream up, except it actually happened,” Murtaugh added.

“Beyoncé actually showed up at the rally only to speak for a few seconds and not perform, so Kamala Harris was *booed* by her fans,” said Red State writer Bonchie Posted on X “Watching this campaign is like watching a naked man smear himself with honey and run through a bear cage.”

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“Are MSNBC and all the other networks that went along with this going to burn their sources who falsely told them that Beyoncé would be performing at the Kamala rally?” Author and journalist Jerry Dunleavy Posted on X “Or did they just make it up?”

Videos circulated Social media on Friday night appeared to show some of the 30,000 fans in attendance being booed and angered, although it was unclear what the exact reason was.

“The Beyoncé concert with Kamala has turned into a complete disaster, with Kamala barely heard on the feed,” reads a Trump campaign account on X. “Humiliating!”

The Harris-Walz campaign issued a press release Saturday following Trump's rally in Michigan, calling the former president “crazy.”

“As Vice President Harris draws record crowds and bridges divides, Trump showed again today that he is too busy dividing our country to lead it,” said Harris-Walz campaign spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika.

“America cannot afford to allow a bumbling and uninhibited prosecutor-in-chief back into the White House to exact his revenge. As Trump expands the list of his enemies, Vice President Harris is bringing voters together across party lines because her focus as president is actually helping the American people.”

Beyoncé, whose hit song “Freedom” was adopted by the vice president as her campaign anthem, spoke before Harris and introduced her at the event, which focused heavily on reproductive rights.

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“It's time for America to sing a new song,” Beyoncé said as she officially endorsed the vice president in her White House race against Trump. “Ladies and gentlemen, please give the next President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris, a big, loud Texas welcome.”

And she emphasized: “I'm not here as a celebrity, I'm not here as a politician, I'm here as a mother. A mother who cares deeply about the world in which my children and all our children live.” A world in which we have the freedom to control our bodies.

Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.