The official line is that Trump attended the game because he got invited by the Knicks owner, and he used to have courtside seats, and he’s always been a Knicks fan. I imagine that this explanation would be somewhere in the ballpark of what Fox News and others reported.
The “fake” news of course offered a different take– that this was just Trump needing to be seen, having no regard for the upset he’d cause when it came to security protocols, including massive wait times, long lines, closing down blocks around the site and shutting down the public watch parties outside Madison Square Garden.
I’d say that it probably leans toward the latter scenario, mainly because a sitting President had never gone to a Finals game before last night. Trump may have needed another thing to brag about, another distraction, he indeed needed to be seen, and he simply has no regard for anything other than what makes him happy or pisses other people off.
There were clips of his motorcade coming into town, him sitting in the owner’s box at the arena, and getting booed the whole time and smiling away, either putting on a good face or just reveling in the attention, whether the reaction was boos or cheers.
Probably more lingering boos than cheers, seeing that the Spurs ended up crashing the party and prevailing in Game 3.
He’s a bona fide asshole. And a bad luck charm, to boot. Sounds about right.
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