Trump Suffers Instant Backlash from Fans as he Crashes NBA Finals

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3:47Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is getting severe backlash after announcing that he will be attending game three of the NBA finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, which will be taking place at Madison Square Garden. The New York Knicks have not been to a final since 1999. They have not won a championship since 1973. And Donald Trump wants to now show up to game three in order to bring his MAGA circus and try to make it about himself. Already, the Secret Service is announcing that there will be major road closures and there will be additional security measures requiring Knicks fans to show up at least two hours before the game right now.

4:35Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump already inconveniencing the city, inconveniencing Knicks fans who want to be at this game. And of course, Donald Trump's very presence is enraging the entire city. Knicks fans are preparing to boo Donald Trump. I'm hearing from my sources that they are getting ready for Jeffrey Epstein chants, for pedo protector chants. Massive boos are going to fill Madison Square Garden. I hear there are other chants that are being ready if Donald Trump does show up. I think that stadium is going to explode and let him know just how much New York City hates him. So here's what just went down in the past 12 hours or so.

5:23Ben Meiselas:The United States Secret Service announced the following. Information about Game 3 attendees should know before arriving at Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks had to post this special announcement about the inconvenience Donald Trump is causing to Knicks fans. Here's the message that was posted by the Knicks. As we move closer to game three of the NBA finals on Monday night, Madison Square Garden and the United States Secret Service want to help ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for all ticket holders by sharing important security procedures that will be in place. How about to make it a good experience?

6:05Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump stays the hell away. New Yorkers do not want that scumbag there, that pedo protector there. Get him the hell away from Madison Square Garden with everything he touches dying. It goes on to say in this statement, a strict no-bag policy will be in effect and fans should make every effort to limit personal items to an absolute minimum. Fans should expect enhanced security measures when entering Madison Square Garden, including TSA-style screening procedures. Guests are strongly encouraged to arrive at least two hours before tip-off to allow additional time for screening and entry. Fans are encouraged to review the complete list of prohibited items before arriving at secretservice.gov slash prohibited items.

6:55Ben Meiselas:There will be no storage available for prohibited items brought to the venue and Knicks fans erupted. Here's what they're posting. He's ruining the entire vibe for real fans. Let him keep his fat ass in Washington. No one wants him here. He's going to get booed like never before. New York hates him. Why is this pedo protector, convicted felon, daily pathological liar and loser going to the game? You guys better bring extra tissues for this event. It's not going to go as expected in terms of his welcome. I expect way more boos than he is prepared for. And it was just statement after statement like this.

7:36Ben Meiselas:And by the way, we were looking not just at social media, the X accounts of the Secret Service and the Knicks. I mean, we were also looking at the Instagram accounts like this. This was the New York Knicks Instagram account. Bro, ban that geriatric man from the garden, please. Regardless of who it is, this is ridiculous. Everyone else's life has to be changed because one person is coming. Why should the rest of us have to suffer because of one person's decision to go, especially when he probably can't even name three players on the team? Someone else writes, the president's values are not consistent with the athletes of the Knicks and their fans.

8:14Ben Meiselas:Someone else says, can we bring eggs? Wow, this is going to be a mess. We can't have nice things. Why are you all letting him in? Bro, we don't want him here. He's literally ruining the vibe right now. How about not inviting him to the garden? It was post after post like this. Let me just share with you what some of the Knicks fans are saying outside of the garden. This is what one of the Knicks fans are saying. Play this clip. How do you feel about Trump attending the game? Fuck Trump. What the fuck? He might catch another bullet on accident. I know who I'm going to look for. And as expected, Donald Trump and his MAGA circus are making this weird already.

8:53Ben Meiselas:The official White House account is sending political messages of Donald Trump sitting courtside at a Knicks game, and it says, no panic-ins. As Donald Trump is crashing the economy, crashing the markets, and this never-ending war, covering up the Epstein files, screwing over Americans, sending ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo to round up migrants and Americans and throw them into camps, modern day concentration camps and detention centers, killing a lot of people. This is the message, no panicans and you're using the Knicks for your political message. Just stay the hell away. Or Donald Trump posting some weird AI image of him dunking over Governor Hochul.

9:41Ben Meiselas:Again, just stay the hell out of it. Or Donald Trump demanding that taxpayer money be used to rename Penn Station Trump Penn Station if they want money from the federal government. Or then Governor Abbott also posting a weird photo of himself on his wheelchair dunking over Kathy Hochul and his wheelchairs hitting her in the face. Again, these are just bizarre and weird messages. Here's what Governor Hochul had to say about Donald Trump and posting that. Here, play this clip. She's surprised to see, you know, the president and Governor Abbott, with their memes of me, they're dunking me on the court, that they're supportive of men and women competing in the same support together.

10:32So I found that very interesting.

10:34Ben Meiselas:Okay, and just to show you the vibe of Knicks fans right now, when Knicks fans went up two to nothing, here's what they posted.

11:04Ben Meiselas:And then more over here as a Nick fans goes, my mayor is Muslim. My bagel is Jewish. Yeah. These people are going to boo the hell out of Donald Trump and rightfully so play this clip. My mayor Muslim, my bagel's Jewish, my Christian New York. Now TMZ caught up with Mayor Momdani as well. And they asked him, you know, would you attend game three with Donald Trump? And he's like, I'm not sure if I'm going to attend. I'm not sure where I'm going to watch it. But if I did attend, I'm not watching it with Donald Trump. Here, play this clip. Mr. Mayor, Jacob with TMZ. Go New York, go New York, go. So how are we feeling about the Knicks right now?

11:49We're feeling great about the Knicks, man. We're hoping that, you know, Spurs and OKC just keep going double OT. They tire themselves out. Then we're I'm hoping for a rerun of 99. Are you gonna go to a game? I'm not sure yet. You're not sure? I'm gonna be watching the games. I can tell you that much. You're at the conference finals. You're not gonna go to a finals game? I'm trying to figure it out. Well, I wonder who is going to a game, President Trump. Okay. So he said he's most likely gonna go, hypothetically, I know you're figuring out your schedule. Would you go with him to a game? You know, if the president went to a game, I'd let him, you know, that's his decision to make.

12:24If I go to the game, I'll be doing so separately. You know the garden very well. How do you think he's going to be received when he goes? You know, New Yorkers, we are an unpredictable people. I think I'd make a fool of myself if I wanted to make a prediction.

12:38Ben Meiselas:And then at the cabinet meeting, they asked Donald Trump if he was going to the game. Here's what he said. Things are happening. Is President Trump going to the next game next week? No, I was invited to. I was going to go on Wednesday, but they closed it out very quickly. they're great. Jim Dolan's a great guy. He's, as you know, owns and in charge of Madison Square Garden. He's having a good year. Boy, what a team. They win all their games. They really have some great players. I think I'll be going to one of the games. I was invited by numerous people and Jim, and I think I'll be going. It's great.

13:13Great to see you. The Knicks have really, they've really suffered for years. What's your producer? They're doing right now.

13:23Ben Meiselas:Then on Air Force One, Donald Trump mocked Knicks fans and mocked people who can't afford ticket prices today. That's just the way it is. That's just what you have to live with. Here, play this clip.

13:46television. It's sort of semi free to watch it on television. But that's the way life goes. You have some. And now if the game wasn't a big if the team wasn't a big success, you could go very easily. So, you know, you can you can do that, too. But that's the way life is. You know, they've had great success. And don't forget, they've suffered also losses and they've suffered during the bad time. Now they have a good time. They have a team that's amazing. I don't think I know you've heard me talk about laundry sauce before. Laundry sauce completely changed how I think about doing laundry. I never thought I'd actually be excited about detergent, but now when I pull clothes out of the dryer, the first thing I think is, wow, that smells incredible.

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15:39Ben Meiselas:Joe Budden's podcast, a popular hip hop and sports podcast, they were talking about Donald Trump showing up and the consensus was he needs to stay out and he should not be invited. Play this clip. And knowing that you haven't won in 53 years and you haven't been in 26, 27 years, Trump is such a force that it could be a distraction to your team. So because of your friendship do you say fuck the distraction this is my man it's the president i'm letting him come or is a championship and your first time sniffing one somewhat important let me ask you real quick let me real fast in your example is dolan inviting him or trump saying hey i want to come to the game both no because that matters trump that matters dolan invited him and trump is saying so dolan extended the invite.

16:34Yes, he did. You can't do that. That's why I'm asking. You can't invite. I don't think you do that. You can, if Trump wants to show up, fine. You can even secretly but he'll come through. But you can't extend an invite to him because it's so polarizing and divisive. Yeah, I think it's right. You don't get mad if the president shows up. Takes away from the moment. Yeah, it's a distraction. And I think this would be an old white man. Which one? Dolph. Dolph. an old white man not recognizing how polarizing and how offensive some people find the shit that Donald Trump is doing. And I think a lot of white people out here, especially older, wealthy white people, don't really realize how serious it is, some of the shit that he's doing and saying.

17:22So I think it's just you not reading the room accordingly. I mean, this is on the... And you don't want that pressure on your team that's never been here before. You want them mentally prepared. You don't want any mental distractions or any social distractions pulling away from their readiness for the games. That's my main idea. Yeah, like, yo, you don't want that shit. Like, because now somebody put a microphone in front of the cat. They got to ask him. How do you feel about Donald Trump showing up? You don't even want him focused on that. You want this nigga basketball ready, reading, watching film.

17:54Yeah. Making sure he's eating well rested, making sure he eating good shit, all of that stuff. Basketball shit. You lose the morale of the stadium. You could. Yeah, the garden. Of the garden? Not of the garden. Hell, my nigga. Not of the garden, but you could definitely lose. You could lose the focus of your team. Wait, wait. I get what you say. Not the garden. You not losing the morale of the garden. No, what I'm saying is that at that point, they're more focused on that energy than they would be on the actual team. And I'm not going to say, I in the garden, you still got to think New York City is, even with all the millions of dollars and billions of dollars, my Dami won.

18:29and it's a progressive semi-progressive population. But then they also got along, so it's kind of weird. Yeah. So it's weird. Like all that getting along? When they sat next to each other and gave each other compliments and beat each other up? Politics. But this is all politics that we're talking about. Not me. Who y 'all think gonna be in the garden at the game? A bunch of rich old Republicans. Everybody that's usually there. Everybody. That's all I'm saying. Not sure. Tough decision to make if you don't, is all I'm saying. Winning, winning should be. To be an even tough decision. If I'm Dolan and I want my man there, I call him on a little like, come in the suite, nigga.

19:13I wouldn't, I wouldn't advise, I wouldn't publicly invite him as well. I wouldn't publicly invite him. I would not publicly invite him. Oh, I agree with that. That's all you gotta do. You're saying publicly inviting him or saying, fuck y 'all niggas, I could care less with y 'all things. An alternative is to ban him, right? Because if Trump comes on his own.

19:25Ben Meiselas:I spoke to Mayor Mom Donnie about the Knicks. Here's what he told me. Look, and as a longtime New York Knicks fan, I was there at all those Knicks Bulls games. We got to talk about the Knicks getting into the finals right now. It's important to the city. I mean, it creates an energy and an electricity in the city. And also, you know, you've attended games, but not kind of front row, not courtside. You've been with the people. And even I see New York Post and Fox hit you on that also for watching games with the people. Just talk to us, though, about what this means to the city and what that's going to look like with this finals.

20:06I'll never apologize for sitting in the nosebleeds. I will tell you it was a great time to be there. And frankly, as you said, it's an incredible time to be a New Yorker right now. the energy across the city, it's in line with the fact that we haven't been here since 1999. And that is something that means so much to so many who have suffered through so many seasons in the hopes of this moment, finally living to actually be able to see it with their own eyes. And it's incredible what this team has done. We cannot wait for the start of the finals. And we're just going to hope that, you know, the Spurs and OKC just battle it out, double OT, you know, take it to a series of game seven because we want to make sure everything's going our way.

20:51Ben Meiselas:I also spoke with Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. Here is his message to Donald Trump. Play this clip. So what's your message to Donald Trump who says that he will be attending game three, the finals of the Knick game at Madison Square Garden this upcoming Monday? Stay away. Why does this guy always have to make everything about himself and ruin a good thing? After 27 years of being out of the NBA finals, we're now up 2-0. The city is in a frenzy. Everybody's coming together. And this guy has to parachute in with his divisive self. And Hakeem Jeffries is from New York. He's a Congress member from one of the boroughs of New York.

21:41Ben Meiselas:Here's what he said as well. Play this clip. If he does attend, what are you hearing? I'm hearing that they're preparing just kind of massive boos. I'm hearing preparing chants. They think this guy is, you know, he's a perpetual jinx. Everyone's like, no, don't get does. We're up to zero. Stay away. What are you hearing is going to happen if he does show up? I mean, listen, we're up 2-0. We've won 13 straight games in a row. This is a historic run, and this guy has to parachute in and bring the MAGA circus along with him. Listen, basketball generally, but the Knicks in particular in this instance, it's a unifying thing.

22:27It brings everybody in the city of New York and the greater New York area together. And so injecting himself, because he's such a divisive figure as a result of the way that he behaves, you know, is going to be a big problem. And I don't think he's going to be received well. I think it's very likely that if his name is called or if he appears on the Jumbotron, he's going to get booed.

22:52Ben Meiselas:And then again, I'll show you the electric vibe outside of the garden right now. Let's play this clip.

23:13Oh

23:35Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, folks. We'll keep you put. I could have read you 50 ,000 or 100 ,000 comments like that because this is on the top of New Yorkers' minds right now. Stay the hell out, Donald. We don't want you in the garden. Stay the hell away. Make sure you hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching, everybody.