Trump is 'lustily booed' in New York City attending NBA Finals

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🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Donald Trump was roundly booed in New York City outside of Madison Square Garden on his way to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs. Trump was booed again once he was spotted inside the venue. Rachel Maddow shares footage of the booing and remarks on the way Trump has arranged to benefit financially from his other sports preoccupation, a UFC fight on the White House grounds.

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0:00.0	Really happy to have you here.
0:01.6	So much going on right now.
0:03.0	Really busy night.
0:03.8	Do you want to see the warm, warm welcome the president of the United States got tonight
0:09.6	when he decided to pretend to be a basketball fan?
0:15.1	Because he wanted to go to the NBA finals in New York tonight.
0:18.5	Do you want to see how much New Yorkers appreciated Donald Trump
0:21.9	making them all come to the game hours early, forcing everyone to go through tons of extra
0:28.1	screening, forcing New York City to cancel the public-free viewing parties they had planned
0:34.5	outside Madison Square Garden, just specifically so Trump could be there
0:38.9	in person, even though he's only ever talked trash about the NBA and doesn't appear to have been
0:44.8	an actual fan at all at least for decades? Do you want to see the big, warm New York welcome that
0:52.9	actual Knicks fans gave him when he arrived at the venue tonight?
1:09.9	When they're waving at you with just one finger, it doesn't mean the same as another kind of wave.
1:16.7	Big New York welcome tonight to President Donald Trump at the Knicks-Spers NBA Finals game.
1:23.8	Trump likes to claim that New York loves him.
1:27.5	New York does not.
1:30.4	In Manhattan, for the record, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance got 17% of the vote in the presidential election in 2024.
1:38.5	Not 70%, 17%.
1:42.7	Which means, given the choice between Donald Trump and allowing yourself to be
1:49.5	puped upon by the big drops of greasy water that drip out of the back of window-mounted
1:54.1	air conditioners onto the sidewalk in the summer. I think New Yorkers would have to think hard about it. Not sure which one seems worse.
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