{"id":348061,"date":"2026-06-09T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=348061"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:53:07","slug":"president-trump-attends-2026-nba-finals-at-msg-gets-booed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/president-trump-attends-2026-nba-finals-at-msg-gets-booed\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Attends 2026 NBA Finals at MSG, Gets Booed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump<\/strong> was readily available to see his Recent York Knicks play their first NBA Finals home game since 1999 on Monday, June 8, watching Game 3 live from Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Per a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-finals-trump-knicks-new-york-7b43bea56ff57b48f72d365efd1b7ddb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>, Trump, 79, flew from his home in Recent Jersey to somewhere near Wall Street in his Marine One helicopter before he and his motorcade drove through Manhattan. Trump, who was accompanied by his granddaughter <strong>Kai Trump <\/strong>amongst others,\u00a0arrived shortly before tipoff, and the president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BetsVirginia\/status\/2064142980294844751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may very well be seen<\/a> from his suite cheering for the Knicks as they equipped to face off against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the primary time a sitting U.S. president has attended an NBA finals game. His attendance for the evening was met with mixed reactions:<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/2064145202282185161?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0boos may very well be heard<\/a> coming from the stands when the published cut to Trump\u2019s suite in the course of the National Anthem, which was sung by <strong>Avery Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Knicks have made their way through the NBA Playoffs, they&#8217;ve made headlines off the court for his or her raucous watch parties outside of MSG and the sky-high ticket prices for those lucky enough to get inside.<\/p>\n<p>With the increased security around Trump\u2019s attendance for Game 3, the outdoor watch party was cancelled amid loads of public outcry. Recent York City mayor <strong>Zohran Mamdani<\/strong> later announced that Bryant Park would as an alternative host as much as 5,000 Recent Yorkers to observe the sport.<\/p>\n<p>With controversy swirling around Trump\u2019s arrival, conservative activist <strong>Ann Coulter<\/strong> laid into him via X, calling the choice \u201cselfish\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c20,000 attendees might be MASSIVELY inconvenienced for all the additional security, the Knicks Watch Party at Garden is canceled, 1000&#8217;s of additional law enforcement officers might be required (paid for by taxpayers), traffic might be a disaster \u2014 all so he can sit within the Garden somewhat than watch the sport on TV,\u201d Coulter, 64, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnnCoulter\/status\/2063819104734019683?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Sunday, June 7.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cPresidents should be willing to sacrifice every so often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarcastically, while Trump faced criticism from his side of the aisle, longtime Trump detractor <strong>Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong> defended him on Monday\u2019s episode of <em>The View<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel anybody who\u2019s a Knicks fan needs to be there,\u201d she said. \u201cYou earned the best as a Knicks fan. I don\u2019t should such as you.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Trolls Vivek Ramaswamy After Knicks Sweep Cavaliers<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tRecent York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wasted no time in rubbing the Knicks\u2019 dominant Eastern Conference Finals performance within the face of Ohio native and 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Shortly after the Knicks defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Monday, May 25, Mamdani, 34, re-posted a social [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Goldberg, 70, said the identical goes for Mamdani, 34, who bought a standing-room ticket to the sport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve gotten successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry. Trump and Mayor Mamdani are Knicks fans and have been, they\u2019re Recent Yorkers,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd \u2026 there\u2019s nothing either one in every of them can do to vary what\u2019s happening on this city for this team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, for his part, has offered no apologies for his attending the sport or for the fans being priced out of tickets. After being told last week that the get-in price for Game 3 was greater than $8,000, he told reporters, \u201cYou&#8217;ll be able to watch it on television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s form of semi-free to observe it on television,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThat\u2019s the best way life goes\u2026 If the team wasn\u2019t a giant success, tickets would go very easily\u2026 but that\u2019s the best way life is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump was readily available to see his Recent York Knicks play their first NBA Finals home game since 1999 on Monday, June 8, watching Game 3 live from Madison Square Garden. Per a report from the Associated Press, Trump, 79, flew from his home in Recent Jersey to somewhere near Wall Street in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[2808,12186,669,34268,660,431,1313],"class_list":["post-348061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-attends","tag-booed","tag-finals","tag-msg","tag-nba","tag-president","tag-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348064,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348061\/revisions\/348064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}