{"id":118861,"date":"2026-06-29T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/118861\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:24:22","slug":"alexis-wilkins-encounters-microphone-glitch-during-brussels-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/118861\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Wilkins Encounters Microphone Glitch During Brussels Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s girlfriend suffered a humiliating microphone glitch while attempting to perform the national anthem.<\/p>\n

Alexis Wilkins, 27, the Nashville-based country music singer who\u2019s been dating Patel, 46, since 2023, was in Brussels, Belgium, Sunday night to perform for the U.S. Embassy\u2019s Fourth of July party, ahead of America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n

Footage from the event, taken by Politico reporter Gerardo Fortuna, shows that things went horribly wrong for Wilkins when it was time for her to sing \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d A technical glitch caused her microphone to cut out, leaving her inaudibly belting out the anthem in front of what Politico reports<\/a> was thousands of people.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe that\u2019s the karaoke version\u2026\u201d Fortuna said he heard a person behind them say.<\/p>\n

The clip shows Wilkins wrestling with the microphone\u2019s button. Politico writes that she appeared confused and \u201ccontinued soundlessly until the camera cut away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Wilkins<\/p>\n

Wilkins suffered a microphone snafu at the U.S. embassy’s event in Brussels. \/ Nicolas Economou \/ Reuters<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

Trump said in a prerecorded speech at the event he was sure the people of Belgium have <\/p>\n

She was apparently allowed to try again later that night, and \u201cperformed it again, this time with sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilkins, whose tracks have yet to amass more than a few hundred thousand streams on Spotify, was already under fire<\/a> for her performance of the same song at the opening of Trump\u2019s Great State Fair in D.C. last week.<\/p>\n

\"Singer<\/p>\n

Singer Katy Perry also got a shout-out at the event, albeit for the wrong reasons. \/ Theo Wargo \/ Getty Images for Tribeca Festiva<\/p>\n

Social media users were critical of her rendition, with one person writing that \u201cshe sounds like a dead cat\u201d and another that they would have preferred to hear her 46-year-old boyfriend Patel sing it instead.<\/p>\n

Others noted she had announced the performance only the day before. They suggested she would not have secured the spot were it not for her relationship with the FBI director.<\/p>\n

\"Critics<\/p>\n

Critics suggested Wilkins would not have landed her state fair gig were it not for her relationship with Patel. \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

They also pointed out that many of the event\u2019s headlining acts had pulled out ahead of time, citing how politicized the fair had become.<\/p>\n

Trump himself delivered a prerecorded speech to Sunday\u2019s event in Brussels, Politico reports. He focused largely on American casualties during WWII, and remarked that \u201cI know the people of Belgium have never forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bill White, the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, was similarly bullish. He hit back at critics of the decision to shut down Brussels\u2019 Cinquantenaire Park for the occasion due to the event\u2019s size, insisting it was necessary \u201cbecause we\u2019re the United States of America!\u201d<\/p>\n

White also took aim at pop singer Katy Perry. She appears to have been the initial pick to perform at the event, but had to decline due to conflicting obligations. \u201cWho cares,\u201d he said. \u201cKarma is a b—h.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has contacted Wilkins for comment on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s girlfriend suffered a humiliating microphone glitch while attempting to perform the national anthem. Alexis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[55455,211,210,59045,55463,59046,8968],"class_list":["post-118861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-alexis-wilkins","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-gerardo-fortuna","tag-kash-patel","tag-microphone","tag-politico"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116835271975054064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}