President Donald Trump may have fallen asleep as he watched game three of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Monday night. Social media commenters claimed they spotted the president snoozing on a video feed of the private box where Trump sat with Knicks owner James Dolan and watched the game. Critics were quick to criticize the president, who has faced numerous accusations of falling asleep during public appearances, enough so that Democrats have called him “the Commander-in-Sleep.” The anti-Trump
Lincoln Project advocacy group called Trump’s Monday MSG visit “the most expensive taxpayer funded nap” in a post on X. “OMG, after ALL THAT, Trump is sleeping at the Knicks game!” activist Amy Siskind wrote in a post on X. “Couldn’t he have saved everyone the trouble and ‘watch it on television?’” she added, a reference to Trump’s recent comments telling Americans to catch the game on TV if they couldn’t afford tickets, which ran as high as $8,000 per seat. “Trump so evil. came
to ruin the fan experience just to sleep at the Knicks game,” another commenter on X wrote. The Independent has contacted the White House for comment. The administration has previously denied that Trump falls asleep on the job, even when presented with video footage that appears to show just that. Even before the alleged sleeping incident, the president’s Finals appearance was controversial. Extra security precautions caused hours of delays getting into the arena, and the crowd booed Trump when he flashed onto the jumbotron as
the match-up started. Trump’s appearance also caused the Finals organizers to cancel the watch parties that were expected outside the Garden, where New Yorkers are rallying behind a Knicks team making its first Finals run in decades. The president was joined by family, friends and White House colleagues at the historic game. He was spotted alongside his granddaughter Kai Trump, as well as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino.
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Dude prob just blinked and they’re acting like it was a nap.
The headline says he “dozed off” but like… everyone does that at games? Also those seats being $8k is insane so of course people are mad.
Nah bc if he can’t even stay awake at the Knicks game then what’s he doing during actual work hours. I saw that video on TikTok and it looked pretty clear, like full on asleep. Then they denied it, which is what they always do. Commander-in-Sleep sounds dumb but also kinda accurate? idk
This whole thing is crazy like, why would he go if he’s just gonna boo the crowd too? I heard they canceled stuff outside the Garden because of security and then he falls asleep… seems like he came to flex and ruin it. Also Lincoln Project people are dramatic as hell but yeah, Madison Square Garden is not the place to be snoozing. I’m sure they’ll say it’s the lighting or angle or whatever.