For a man who collects adversaries as readily as he does, it is amazing how often Donald Trump manages to be his own worst enemy. When the President was being roundly and loudly booed as he attended Game 3 of the NBA finals on Monday night, it probably didn’t feel that way to Trump himself – but this was a debacle all of his own making.
Trump, knowingly or not, had done almost everything he could possibly do to make sure the crowd would be hostile to him, and in a bad mood by the time he arrived. As a result, even with tickets reselling for tens of thousands of dollars – meaning their occupants would have been in an income bracket typically better-disposed to the President – his hostile reception was inevitable.
The US President doesn’t travel light. His motorcade is dozens of cars long, and his security arrangements are extensive and exhaustive. The President needs a secure perimeter, anyone coming anywhere near him needs to be security scanned and vetted, and evacuation procedures mean that roads nearby need to be closed.
For this reason, sitting presidents tend to avoid New York most of the time, because a single visit can cause traffic chaos that paralyses the city for hours. Similarly, presidents tend to avoid NBA games altogether – the last time a president attended an NBA game before Monday night was Obama in 2015. No president has ever tried to attend an NBA finals game before.
The chaos caused by Trump’s decision to attend the game makes it obvious why his predecessors had been put off. Fans could not take any kind of bags into the arena. They were told to arrive at least two hours earlier than normal for additional security screening.
Because of the security arrangements, plans for a gathering to watch the game on a giant screen outside the arena had to be cancelled. New York City was hosting its first NBA finals game since 1999 and Donald Trump was ruining the party. That would be enough to get many fans booing even if it was all that Trump had done to upset the locals.
Still, on some level, Trump might have thought that the crowd would be on his side, or willing to forgive the inevitable security farrago that goes with a presidential visit. New York is Trump’s hometown, and for a long time he was a popular figure in the city – a local boy made good, who in his own mythology turned an inheritance of a few million into billions. The principal Trump Tower is in Manhattan, after all.
But the days of Trump being a popular man in New York City are long gone. Trump is an unpopular President across the country: his approval ratings are at the lowest they’ve ever been in either term. He is even less popular in Democratic states and cities, though, not least because his administration has constantly made threats against them.
Even just in recent weeks, Trump’s newly picked Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, has claimed to be drawing up plans to stop processing international flights at airports in Democratic-controlled cities, for not showing sufficient support for ICE and its raids.
Such a move would paralyse cities like New York, devastate US tourism and show up the US on the world stage just as it gets ready to host the World Cup. But it is just the latest in a long line of threats New York has had to weather.
Trump warned New York against electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor – only to warm on the popular politician shortly after he won – and had threatened to send federal troops into the city, as he had done in LA, Washington, DC and elsewhere.
Trump might have been surprised by the vehemence and the volume of the hostile reception he got at the New York Knicks vs San Antonio Spurs game on Monday, but he shouldn’t have been. Were he not surrounded by yes-men and sycophants, any one of them could have warned him a hostile reception was inevitable.
No one made him go to the game, no one asked him to go to the game, and he didn’t even seem to enjoy it – Trump appeared to be dozing at least once during the fixture. Even worse, Trump didn’t bring New York any luck, either: the Knicks lost the game as the President looked on. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Donald Trump is a hometown President, supporting his hometown team in a sport beloved in his country – and he’s getting roundly booed. It is hard to think of something more deeply humiliating for a man as desperate to be publicly loved as Donald Trump is.
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