Donald Trump was silenced by a furious heckler at a rally in Mississippi who yelled to the president: 'Shove that ballroom up your fat a**.'
The shocking moment unfolded Monday night in the Crossroads Arena in Corinth, Mississippi, where Trump was continuing his midterm campaign blitz.
Footage showed Trump, 80, telling the audience: 'What I have been doing in the past is walking off the stage, to the consternation of the people that protect us.'
The heckler then berated Trump from the crowd, with the crude jibe causing the president to hesitate and stop his speech for a moment.
'Oh, go home,' Trump then responded. 'Go home, go home.'
Trump smiled and laughed at the interruption as his audience erupted, before a chant of 'USA, USA, USA' broke out in the crowd.
Trump added: 'He gets paid, you know they're paid protesters, they get paid $250 by, they think its Soros.'
The heckler was referring to the enormous new ballroom Trump is building at the White House, after demolishing the former East Wing of the property.
Laden with golden fixtures, Trump said the venue will provide a safe and secure space to host large events and that it will ultimately save Americans money.
But the president's unpopular war with Iran and the rising cost of living has made many of his own supporters reassess the project as wasteful and out-of-touch, with midterm polls predicting a potential GOP bloodbath.
Trump's confrontation with the heckler on Monday was far from his first on the campaign trail in recent weeks, with one rally in South Carolina last week hit by at least six protesters in the opening 20 minutes.
At that event, Trump echoed his comeback as he claimed the protesters were 'all paid' and 'a bunch of losers.'
Donald Trump was silenced by a furious heckler at a rally in Mississippi on Monday who yelled to the president: 'Shove that ballroom up your fat a**'
The heckler was told to 'go home' by Trump who accused him of being 'paid' to protest
A rendering of Trump's new White House ballroom. The president says it will offer a secure venue to host large events and that it will save money in the long term. As his war with Iran grows more unpopular, some former supporters have started to turn against the project
The bizarre interruption came as Trump's ballroom extension to the White House continued to spark controversy, with the Supreme Court allowing the construction to move forward in a ruling on August 31
Trump's ballroom is expected to cost upwards of $600 million, and will be completed by the end of 2028 (seen in official renderings)
Another of Trump's events in Ohio on October 12 was also plagued by protesters, as hecklers continue to be a recurring theme of Trump's midterm rallies.
A protester with a shirt reading 'Release the Epstein Files' was punched and kicked furiously at the Ohio rally, before eventually being dragged out of the event.
The Epstein protest sparked a frenzy at the Trump rally, as the president then turned to mocking the 'paid protester'.
'Oh, he's gotta' go on a diet. He's a fat guy, wow. Wow. Gotta' go on a diet fast. We all do,' Trump said to laughter.
He then repeated a joke he's often told of protesters at rallies, that their 'mother and father voted for me,' to huge applause.
With the midterm elections entering the home stretch, the campaign trail in recent days became a tit-for-tat battle between Trump and his predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama.
On Saturday, Obama captured headlines by mocking Trump's renovation of the White House, saying the gold decorations 'looked like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.'
Obama added: 'Guy's building a ballroom that's bigger than the White House! Paved over the Rose Garden, put a helicopter pad on the South Lawn and there's gold everywhere!'
On Saturday, Obama captured headlines by mocking Trump's renovation of the White House, saying the gold decorations 'looked like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.'
Trump speaks during a meeting with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office in 2025
The jibe appeared to provoke Trump, with the president laying into Obama in a furious rant at his Mississippi rally on Monday.
Trump accused Obama of leaving the White House 'filthy, dirty and broken', and said he was 'surprised' by the condition that Obama allowed it to fall into.
He said he told the press to tell Obama that 'the White House is a symbol of America and when it's filthy, dirty and broken, when the windows are cracked, when the exterior monuments on the outside are good on one side and cracked on the other side, people notice that.'
'This place is in bad shape, it really is. I made up for lost time because I did a job and it's in better shape than it was built and more beautiful,' Trump said.
He also dismissed the notion that he 'spends all his time' on renovations, saying he 'literally' does it while walking home from the Oval Office.
'I'd walk, I'd look up, I'd say, "boy that wall is really bad, let's go, we gotta' fix it, fellas." And we have really talented people, they have a great touch.'
President Barack Obama, right, meets with then President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office in 2016
Trump similarly lashed out at Obama, long an inspiration for Trump's rise to political power, when speaking to the press earlier Monday at Joint Base Andrews.
'For you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president,' Trump unloaded on his predecessor while addressing the press at Joint Base Andrews.
'He's not smart at all because of the way he ran the country. Only a stupid person would run the country like that,' Trump said.
'We have to explain that to Obama because he doesn't understand it because he's not a smart guy,' the president continued, saying Obama did not notice 'dirt and filth' that had not been cleaned and walls that had not 'been cleaned for years.'
'Guys like Obama don't see it... He doesn't see broken ornaments on a building,' Trump added, defending his updates to the White House.
