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Trump Has Audacity to Fall Asleep in Knicks Game After Ruining Vibes

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President Donald Trump shut down midtown Manhattan Monday so he could take a nap at the NBA Finals. After getting loudly booed by attendees at Madison Square Garden, Trump was spotted snoozing in his box seats next to Knicks owner James Dolan and his granddaughter Kai Trump.DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT THE NBA FINALS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. pic.twitter.com/rFrW6c4cME— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) June 9, 2026It seems that a tense game three between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs wasn’t enough to pique the president’s interest. It’s not particularly surprising, considering that Trump has repeatedly been seen dozing off during press conferences, bill signings, and Cabinet meetings, among other apparent instances of cognitive decline. Trump’s nap came amid his highly disruptive trip to Midtown at the taxpayer’s expense and New Yorkers’ apparent dismay. Authorities closed 10 blocks around Madison Square Garden to traffic and pedestrians ahead of Trump’s arrival. The Secret Service and TSA, along with the NYPD, heightened security protocols at MSG. Attendees were forced to arrive hours early, and without any bags. And perhaps worst of all, the New York Knicks were forced to cancel their rambunctious watch party outside the stadium. Clearly the vibes were off: the Knicks lost by four points, ending a 13-game winning streak.

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'USA!' chants rock Madison Square Garden as Trump attends NBA Finals

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'USA!' chants rock Madison Square Garden as Trump attends NBA Finals

New York Knicks fans were among the loudest of any in their reaction to President Trump's appearance at the NBA Finals on Monday night.There was one hurdle that Trump supporters in the building seemingly had to overcome though — their fellow Knicks fans.'He's a genuine Knicks fan.'The president attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals amid heightened security at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with the hometown Knicks hosting the San Antonio Spurs.When the president made his first appearance on the in-arena big screen, it looked like Trump being the first sitting POTUS to attend an NBA Finals was not going over well with fans. A mixture of jeers and boos chorused through the building as Trump was shown alongside his granddaughter Kai during the national anthem; both of them smirked at the reaction.However, as the night went on, Trump seemed to gain a bit more favorability, especially when the New York Fire Department made its way onto the court for a presentation.The crowd erupted into chants of "USA! USA!" as the president pumped his fist along with some of the patriots in attendance. RELATED: LA Dodgers pitcher refuses to comply with Pride Night, enraging progressive fans The crowd seemed to cheer for the president later in the game when he was shown on-screen with Knicks owner James Dolan, but it is difficult to tell if the images of Trump shown on television were what garnered the reaction from fans.Regardless of their support for the president, Knicks fans went home upset after their team lost 115-111, with the Spurs cutting into the Knicks' series lead, which now sits at 2-1.Chaos filled the streets after the game, and fights broke out despite a heavy NYPD presence. New Yorkers also seemed to target Spurs fans with violence, according to multiple videos posted on X. One younger male had his Spurs jersey ripped off of him, while an older man in a Spurs jersey was chased by a group of fans who were throwing objects at him.RELATED: The NBA is finally going with a pro-America stance: 'We're proud' - YouTube Before the game, there was plenty of contentiousness surrounding Trump's appearance, with multiple New York Democrats questioning his support for the team.Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said it wasn't clear to him that Trump was a real fan, while New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) suggested Trump couldn't name the "1993 championship team," which is a strange reference as the Knicks did not win the Eastern Conference or the NBA Finals that year.NBA Commissioner Adam Silver cleared up some of the controversy in an interview with ESPN when he said Trump was invited to the game by the Knicks owner, and he even described the president as a "fixture at Madison Square Garden" in the past."Back in the old days, he had courtside seats. He was here all the time. He was at the draft. So he's a genuine Knicks fan," Silver stated. Regarding Trump attending the game, the commissioner concluded, "I think we should be using sports to create more of a sense of community with people, not less."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Decisive defeat finally shows Trump House GOP might not be on his side

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Decisive defeat finally shows Trump House GOP might not be on his side

WASHINGTON — Cracks in President Donald Trump’s stranglehold on the GOP — and the 119th Congress — went on full display at the U.S. Capitol this month as the House of Representatives sent the White House a defiant message.Last week, 18 Republicans voted to approve a Ukraine aid package opposed by the White House. It came after four Republicans supported a measure calling for the removal of U.S. troops from Iran unless Congress votes to authorize that war. The rare presidential rebukes revealed tension in the GOP, with Republicans now openly attacking other Republicans.“To lessen the president's hand, I think, was inappropriate,” Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) told Raw Story at the Capitol. “I don't think they were thinking.” Still, Democrats aren’t doing any end zone dances just yet.Now that Israel and America have been at war with Iran for longer than 60 days, Trump and his allies are re-packaging it.“Really, at this point, it’s a blockade, and more than anything, we are ensuring safe transit and making sure that there’s freedom of navigation,” Zinke, who served as Interior Secretary in Trump’s first term, told Raw Story.Zinke shares the president’s frustration with the 226-195 vote reasserting congressional control of the conflict."It's tragic,” Zinke said. “Do you think those Republicans who crossed over were looking at November?” Raw Story asked. “I don't think they were thinking,” Zinke said of his GOP colleagues who crossed the aisle. While Zinke says he agreed with the premise of the Iran measure — that Congress has the ultimate say on matters of war and peace — he says now isn’t the time for Congress to be tying the president’s hand."I agree with the underlying premise, but I also agree that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon," Zinke said. "They can't have an arsenal of destruction. They can't have nuclear material. So I'm giving the president a little latitude on this one." Since Trump re-entered the White House last January, Republicans on Capitol Hill have given his administration broad leeway on everything from tearing down the White House's historic East Wing to letting Elon Musk and DOGE — Department of Government Efficiency — rescind billions of dollars Congress itself had approved. While the Iran measure is largely symbolic, it did reveal growing unrest with the conflict. “I guess, maybe, it’s just a little bit of frustration,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told Raw Story just off the House floor. “We had really good combat operations, but now we've had two months of, I don't know, it seems like a little bit of indecision being made.”Bacon’s retiring at the end of this term and tends to be more moderate on many issues, but he actually voted with the president on Iran — though he’s not judging his GOP colleagues who bucked Trump. “I think we grapple with this. I want to see us win. Iran's terrible. I would hate to tie the president's hands right now,” Bacon said. “But I understand the other side of the position, too.”Ukraine’s a different story, though.On Thursday last week, 18 Republicans — including Bacon — voted with Democrats to authorize $8 billion in loans to Ukraine and America’s NATO allies. “It’s Congress saying, ‘hey, we’ve got a different opinion,’” Bacon said. “And, by the way, 70 percent of the American people want more support for Ukraine. I think it's important for him to hear that.”The measure’s future is in doubt now that it’s been sent to the GOP-controlled Senate, but Trump’s growing number of congressional critics say this week was important because, if nothing else, it showed a restive American public that Congress is more than a rubber stamp, at least in theory. “Do you think that raises awareness to the public?” Raw Story asked Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI). “Some,” Dingell told Raw Story while walking to the Capitol this week. “Yeah.”“They should be worried going into the election,” Dingell said. “People are unhappy right now with energy costs. Gasoline prices have risen dramatically.”That’s why Democrats are glad Congress finally stood up to Trump. “It's important for Congress to insert itself,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) told Raw Story. Still, with Trump’s success in recent GOP primary contests, Democrats aren’t expecting the president’s grip on congressional Republicans to let up ahead of this year’s midterms. “He can ignore it. He can do whatever he wants,” Bera said. “A lot of my colleagues will echo what the president's saying.”

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Spurs-Knicks Game 4 ticket prices are dropping by thousands. Get them now

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Spurs-Knicks Game 4 ticket prices are dropping by thousands. Get them now

Now is the time to pounce if you want to see a Finals game at the Garden.

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Trump prosecutor vows CA election charges within 'two months' — as he begs for evidence

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Trump prosecutor vows CA election charges within 'two months' — as he begs for evidence

The federal prosecutor leading California's election fraud investigations appeared on Glenn Beck's show Monday to announce imminent charges — then pleaded with the public to help him find the evidence to bring them.First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the number-two federal prosecutor in the Central District of California, told Beck that election fraud charges are coming — "one to two months, I believe" — before pivoting to ask the conservative host's audience for help."What we need right now are witnesses," Essayli said in the interview. "If you've witnessed anything… we wanna know about that."The announcement fits a pattern. On June 5 — one day after President Donald Trump alleged without evidence that California's primary was being rigged — Essayli announced his office had "multiple" probes underway. He then accused California of blocking a federal audit of its voter rolls, part of an ongoing DOJ lawsuit against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D). On Monday, Essayli hedged his own timeline even as he announced it."I hate to put timelines on things," he told Beck, "but one to two months, I believe. We need some of these results to be certified so we can prove some of the allegations."Then came the ask."I know people have theories and they have ideas," Essayli added. "What we need right now are witnesses."It's a striking posture for a prosecutor promising imminent charges. Essayli's credibility carries its own baggage: a federal judge previously ruled that he had illegally served as acting U.S. Attorney, having remained in office beyond his interim appointment without congressional approval. He now holds the title of First Assistant U.S. Attorney.None of that dampened his confidence Monday. Charges are coming, he insisted — just as soon as someone tells him what happened.

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Bill Pulte's family entangled with shadowy Christian group backing Trump allies: report

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Bill Pulte's family entangled with shadowy Christian group backing Trump allies: report

For more than two generations, Bill Pulte's family has had close ties with a covert Christian group that has backed allies of President Donald Trump and other conservatives, according to a report on Tuesday.The acting national intelligence director's grandfather and father have been closely involved with a group known as The Family, or The Fellowship, which organizes the National Prayer Breakfast and a C Street congressional residence on Capitol Hill. These are "leaders and financial backers of a secretive Christian organization that conducts shadow diplomacy around the world, according to public records and documents I obtained," wrote Jonathan Larsen in a Substack post, which was republished by Salon."Pulte’s grandfather, at one point one of the wealthiest men in the world, built a Fortune 500 company and gave tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to charity before his 2018 death," Larsen wrote. "He was also friends with Doug Coe, died in 2017 after decades leading the secretive, controversial Fellowship Foundation that built and sustained a global right-wing network including dictators, lobbyists, and corrupt millionaires largely united against labor, LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights."Pulte's exact connection to The Fellowship remains unclear. It's said he was close to his grandfather, his namesake, who was a longtime friend of Coe's, Larsen wrote. Pulte's father has continued to fund religious charities connected to The Fellowship."If Pulte is personally connected to The Fellowship, he’d hardly be alone in the administration’s upper ranks," Larsen wrote."Secretary of State Marco Rubio used to live at the C Street townhouse, as did Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the United Kingdom, former 'Apprentice' producer Mark Burnett, is a regular at The Fellowship’s National Prayer Breakfast," Larsen explained."But the ties extend beyond overlapping at religious charities in the orbits of Michigan philanthropists. Pulte had a significant personal relationship with Coe, who hobnobbed with presidents of both parties and leaders of nations around the world," Larsen wrote.And that's not the only connection the Pulte family has to top political families — or the Trump family.Pulte's father also played a role in Trump's bidding war against Epstein for a Palm Beach property, which was noted by Substacker Greg Conners."The notorious bidding war for a Palm Beach estate between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein involved a third party. It was Mark Pulte, who veered off from the Pulte home-building business to focus on luxury properties. As Conners notes, Pulte, father of Trump’s appointee, outbid Epstein and was the one who actually bid up the price Trump ended up paying," Larsen added.

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Trump keeps forecasting an Iran deal — why the White House still thinks it can happen

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Trump keeps forecasting an Iran deal — why the White House still thinks it can happen

Trump projects confidence in Iran nuclear deal despite unresolved uranium enrichment disputes and a fragile ceasefire that nearly unraveled.

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In Europe, Trump Can Embrace the Opportunity Russian Weakness Presents

National Review

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In Europe, Trump Can Embrace the Opportunity Russian Weakness Presents

The West stands to gain.

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Trump needs a pro-worker head of Labor Department — not a union lapdog

Washington Examiner

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Trump needs a pro-worker head of Labor Department — not a union lapdog

There’s a political fight going on inside the White House over who should be the next labor secretary. The outcome should matter a lot to conservatives, business leaders, and people who care about the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. Democrats created the Labor Department decades ago to increase the power of big labor union bosses […]

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