Trump jinxes NY Knicks? Fans blame president after Bridges ‘disappears’ in Game 3 of finals.
On Monday, President Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game, appearing at Game 3 of the Knicks vs. Spurs series at Madison Square Garden, where he was loudly booed by the New York crowd during the national anthem.
But his less-than-warm welcome wasn’t the only controversial thing that happened. After the Knicks lost 115-111, some Knicks fans blamed Trump for throwing the home team off its mojo. Apparently his attendance created a circus-like atmosphere with heavy security, booing, and shifted crowd energy that allegedly contributed to the team’s loss.
According to some disgruntled fans, Trump’s appearance is why Knicks player Mikal Bridges “disappeared.” The shooting guard had a rough game, scoring only two points, leading to his benching in the second half.
“They’re — of course — blaming him for the loss,” sighs “Pat Gray Unleashed” co-host Keith Malinak.
Before Game 3, "The View’s" Alyssa Farah Griffin expressed concern about Trump attending the game and warned that he would be the scapegoat if the Knicks lost.
“If I were advising him, I would be like, ‘Do not go, because if they lose tonight, everyone's going to blame Trump,”’ she cautioned.
“And it happened,” says Pat. “They are blaming him.”
But it appears that Trump is unaware of — or unaffected by — the backlash.
In a postgame interview, he said, “It was, I think, mostly cheers. It was loud, and it was very enthusiastic.”
Once again, Trump lives rent-free in the heads of his critics — even when it comes to an NBA game.
To hear more of the panel’s discussion, watch the episode above.
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Bill Maher warns Dems to do something about 'The View' after Whoopi Goldberg compares Iran to US; GOP rep blasts her response
Bill Maher advised Democrats to "do something" about "The View" after co-host Whoopi Goldberg made a controversial remark that compared Iran to the United States of America. Meanwhile, a GOP representative blasted Goldberg for attempting to compare life in the United States with life in Iran.
Last week, Goldberg stirred the pot by claiming that living under the brutal Iranian theocratic regime isn't much different from black people living in the United States.
'"The View" isn’t a talk show, it’s a weekly tantrum from the far-left padded room.'
The eyebrow-raising comment was made during a discussion about the conflict in Iran, when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out that the oppressive Iranian regime has regularly violated human rights.
“Let’s just remember, too, the Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings. They don’t adhere to basic human rights,” Griffin declared during the episode that aired last Wednesday.
The remark irritated Goldberg, who responded by saying, "Let’s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car. I’m sorry, they used to just keep hanging black people."
Griffin responded while Whoopi continued to talk over her.
"I'm sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today in 2025 is nothing compared to the United States," Griffin replied. "It is not even the same."
Goldberg argued, "It is the same." Then Whoopi told Griffin, "That's not what you mean to say."
Griffin countered, "The year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if I stepped foot wearing this outfit in Tehran right now."
Griffin noted that women cannot wear leg-revealing skirts or have their hair showing in Iran.
It is mandatory for women to wear a hijab to cover their hair in public spaces, and failing to do so is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, according to the United Nations.
"I think it’s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran in 2025," Griffin stated.
Goldberg interjected, "Not if you’re black."
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin agreed, saying, "Not for everybody."
Griffin advised, "Uh, guys, don’t go to Tehran. Do not. No one at this table can go to Tehran.”
Whoopi admitted that the United States is "the greatest country in the world," but contended that black Americans face issues every day.
Goldberg said, "But every day, we are worried. Do we have to be worried about our kids? Are their kids going to get shot because they’re running through somebody’s neighborhood?”
Co-host Sara Haines added of females in Iran, "And they are not doing well there. They are not doing well in Iran. They are not educated. They can’t own property.”
Haines noted, “They can’t go out of their houses.”
Griffin conceded that there are "very real problems" in the United States, but there are "much darker" places in the world.
"Nobody wants to diminish the very real problems we have in this country," Griffin stated. "That is no one’s intent, but I think it’s important we remember there are places much darker than this country, and people who deserve rights …"
Goldberg butted in and said, "Listen, not everybody feels that way. Not everybody feels that way. Listen, I’m sorry, you know, when you think about the fact that we got the vote in 1965 …"
Griffin interrupted, "They don’t have free and fair elections in Iran. It’s not even the same universe."
Goldberg dropped out of the tense debate by saying, "There's no way I can make you understand."
Maher ridiculed "The View" for attempting to equate life in the authoritarian Islamic Republic of Iran with being a black American in the United States.
During the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the liberal talk show host applauded Democrats for taking a step "back to sanity" after the New York Times shifted toward a more "sensible liberal, not crazy woke” position on transgender issues.
However, Maher noted that the Democrats have an issue with the progressive talking points spouted on "The View" and that "something" needs to be done about it.
Maher said it was a "great first step toward giving Democrats back some sanity." He added, "A second good step would be: We gotta do something about 'The View.' I really believe that."
'Honestly? Don’t cancel "The View." Add more cameras. More microphones. Maybe even a laugh track. Once you realize it’s basically an "SNL" skit of a left-wing meltdown, it becomes the greatest MAGA campaign ad on TV.'
Maher asked guest Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) for his opinion on Goldberg's remarks that black Americans have just as many issues as people in Iran.
Hunt reacted with a hearty laugh before stating, "My district in the great state of Texas is actually a white-majority district that President Trump would have won by 25 points."
"As I said, I’m a direct descendant of a slave, my great-great-grandfather, who was born on Rosedown Plantation," Hunt continued. "I am literally being judged not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character."
Hunt added, "That’s the progress, because, like, a lot of white people had to vote for me — a lot. So I don’t ever want to hear Whoopi Goldberg’s conversation about how it’s worse to be black in America right now. That's a bit far."
Hunt explained that his father grew up under Jim Crow but is now the father of a Republican U.S. congressman in a white-majority district.
"That is America," Hunt proclaimed. "So let's celebrate that."
Fellow guest Paul Begala, a Democratic political consultant and commentator, argued that we have the holiday of Juneteenth to celebrate the freedom of black Americans, but asserted that President Donald Trump “doesn’t want to honor” the occasion.
Hunt fired back, “I don’t want it. I don’t want Black History Month. I don’t want all these days to make everybody feel special. I’m an ’80s baby. Everybody’s too sensitive anyway. We’re all Americans anyway.”
Hunt continued to bash "The View" host even after his Friday appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Hunt wrote on the X social media platform on Monday, "Hey Whoopi, if America is so bad, why are you still cashing multi-million dollar checks from a country that made you rich, famous, and free? You claim it’s worse to be Black in America than a woman in Iran? Really?"
"Try hosting The View in Tehran and see how that goes. Spoiler alert: there won’t be a studio audience — there’ll be a firing squad," the Texas congressman stated.
"The truth is, you’ve become a professional victim in a nation that gave you everything. The View isn’t a talk show, it’s a weekly tantrum from the far-left padded room," Hunt declared. "Let her talk. Let her rant. Every time she opens her mouth, she reminds America why we’re winning."
Hunt stated that he doesn't want "The View" canceled. In fact, Hunt wants to bring more exposure to the left-wing talk show.
"Honestly? Don’t cancel The View. Add more cameras. More microphones. Maybe even a laugh track," Hunt said. "Once you realize it’s basically an SNL skit of a leftwing meltdown, it becomes the greatest MAGA campaign ad on TV."
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Black Americans destroy Whoopi Goldberg’s claim that life for blacks is ‘the same’ as for Iranians
The women of “The View,” who lead arguably some of the most privileged lives in the world, got into a heated debate this week when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin elaborated on the many human rights violations perpetrated under the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran.
Those include executions of gay people and the imprisonment of women who dare to venture outside without their hair covered.
“Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings,” Griffin said, before Goldberg laid into her.
"Let’s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car. Listen, I'm sorry, they used to just keep hanging black people," Goldberg said.
"In the year 2025 in the United States, it is nothing like if I step foot wearing this outfit into Iran right now," Griffin said.
"It is the same," Goldberg responded, and when Griffin attempted to argue, Goldberg responded, “Not if you’re black.”
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock of "Jason Whitlock Harmony" couldn’t be less surprised that Goldberg holds such a view, and neither can his panel.
“Delusion is a stronghold, and oftentimes when you are too well fed for too long, you forget what actual hunger feels like,” BlazeTV contributor Delano Squires comments.
“My initial thought, and it’s not my strongest, but why is this on TV? Who is funding this? This is a level of delusion and a conversation so far removed from reality. Why is this on television, and why are corporations and advertisers supporting this?” Whitlock chimes in.
“It just frustrates me because it is allowed to be on TV when it’s so far-fetched and ridiculous. I don’t, as a black person, walk around every day feeling like I even compare to these women or people in these other countries, and Whoopi knows this, and she understands this, but yet she’s allowed to push this type of rhetoric,” Shemeka Michelle agrees.
“So for Whoopi to be able to push this narrative on national TV, ABC should be ashamed of themselves,” she adds.
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Joy Behar roasted for saying Karoline Leavitt got WH press secretary job 'because according to Donald Trump she's a 10'
Left-wing co-host of "The View" Joy Behar — rarely one to put the brakes on her mouth — is getting bludgeoned on social media after saying Karoline Leavitt got the nod for White House press secretary "because according to Donald Trump she's a 10."
Behar made the remark on Wednesday's program. You can check out a short clip of her mouth moving here.
Observers on X blasted Behar for her comment. Here are but a few of the reactions:
- "Seems kinda sexist, 'Joy,'" one commenter said.
- "Looks like someone is jelly of her hotness!" another user said. "Did Joy not listen to Karoline speak?! She speaks with authority! She kicked a$ up there at the podium!"
- "No, because she is qualified, tough, and has a brain!" another commenter said. "Unlike Behar!"
- "The comparison could not be more stark," another user said. "It's shocking that Joy Behar has a job."
- "Good Lord, is that the best she’s got? Karoline was brilliant yesterday!" another commenter said.
- "Another TDS female trashing other females ... shocker," another user said.
- Then the truth bomb: "It’s not her fault. Republicans are just hotter."
What preceded Behar's remark?
Prior to Behar's remark, fellow left-wing co-host Whoopi Goldberg kicked things off: “I would like this young lady who — this is her first job — I would like her to do a little homework because she said something yesterday that really pissed me off ... she said, ‘There will be no wokeness here.’"
Goldberg then looked at the camera as if she were speaking directly to Leavitt: "Let me explain something to you. Because without that wokeness, you might not have that job. Because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation."
Goldberg then became visibly angry as her voice rose, her mouth sneered, and her finger wagged: "The reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn't have to worry about this. ... The wokeness was put into place for a reason. Because black people couldn't get into colleges. Because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to. ... It was a man's world, and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person's world. So please, please stop using [wokeness] ... because you don't understand what you're saying."
With that, Behar stated that Leavitt has "probably been put in there because according to Donald Trump, she's a 10. You know that's what it is!"
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin jumped in to correct Goldberg by saying the White House press secretary position isn't Leavitt's first job and that she worked in the previous Trump administration. Leavitt, 27, is the youngest press secretary in history.
Trump's four press secretaries during his first term in the White House were Sean Spicer, now-Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham, and Kayleigh McEnany.
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Left-wing queen Joy Behar questions how Carrie Underwood can 'love' America and sing at Trump inauguration
Country music star Carrie Underwood is slated to sing "America the Beautiful" at Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration Monday.
"I love our country and am honored to have been asked to sing at the inauguration and to be a small part of this historic event," Underwood said in a statement to USA Today. "I am humbled to answer the call at a time when we must all come together in the spirit of unity and looking to the future."
'She says, "I love our country." How do you love your country and support and normalize somebody who was a convicted felon, who really wants to destroy the country, in my opinion?'
Underwood's decision has, of course, ruffled some feathers and bent some noses. Most notable among the offended is left-winger Joy Behar, a co-host of "The View."
When the topic came up for discussion on Tuesday's episode of the daytime talk-fest, Alyssa Farah Griffin kicked things off.
“I personally hope we’re moving beyond ... [wanting] to cancel peoples’ livelihoods because we don’t like their politics,” Griffin said before adding that "if you have a problem, you register your complaint by not downloading [Underwood's] songs and not going to her shows.”
Griffin added that while Underwood performing at the inauguration might irk Democrats, it isn't going to hurt her standing among Trump supporters: “Seventy-five million people voted for Trump. Artists tend to skew left-leaning. So she’s overnight gonna become an icon of MAGA and the American right. She’s probably gonna make a lot of money off of it. So I get why she did it.”
Naturally, Behar didn't agree.
“I wouldn’t do it, even though I can't sing. I would not normalize him," Behar declared. "She says, ‘I love our country.’ How do you love your country and support and normalize somebody who was a convicted felon, who really wants to destroy the country, in my opinion? I don’t understand how you say you love your country at the same time as you normalize this convicted felon, which I can say now every day."
Griffin chimed in that "respectfully, a lot of my family voted for Trump. They love the country and voted for him. I think that people make these decisions for a lot of reasons.”
Behar replied, “OK, fine. And I would not be the person to say don’t do it because I believe in free speech and everything about it. I personally would not do it. No one’s asked me, but that’s another story.”
You can watch "The View" segment here.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck takes issue with Behar's words
Elisabeth Hasselbeck — a conservative and a former co-host of "The View" — on Tuesday afternoon issued a warning on X saying Behar "needs to simmer down off my friend."
Later that night, Hasselbeck expanded her pushback against Behar on Fox News' "Hannity," calling the co-host's Underwood-bashing a "selfish publicity gain."
"She wants to attach her name to Carrie Underwood's name so that she maintains relevance because they know the ship is sinking," Hasselbeck said, according to Fox News.
Hasselbeck added that Behar questioning Underwood's love for America is "ridiculous."
"She wants us to believe that [about] Carrie Underwood, who won ‘American Idol’ by American votes, who had an album and tour called 'All-American Girl,' who actually has spent more time on USO tours, serving and helping and donating money to our nation's finest, our military, their families, and our veterans," Hasselbeck noted.
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'The View' co-hosts — some dressed in black as if for a funeral — harp and complain after Trump wins back White House
In their first broadcast since Donald Trump took back the White House overnight in a resounding victory over Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, the co-hosts of "The View" — some dressed in black as though they were attending a funeral — as expected harped and complained Wednesday morning about Trump's win.
Whoopi Goldberg at one point acknowledged that Trump is "now the president" — however, she added a caveat: "I'm still not gonna say his name."
'I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.'
Ana Navarro lamented that America failed to elect "the first black, Asian woman president. History slipped through our fingers again. I worked hard as hell for Donald Trump not to be president. But today, unlike Donald Trump and his followers, I acknowledge that he won."
Sunny Hostin said, "I'm profoundly disturbed. I think if you look at the New York Times this morning, the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think that in 2016 we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration. But we know now. And we know now he will have almost unfettered power. And so I worry — not about myself actually, I don’t worry about my station in life — I worry about the working class. I worry about my mother, a retired teacher. I worry about our elderly and their Social Security and their Medicare. I worry about my children’s future, especially my daughter who now has less rights than I have.”
Hostin added: "I'm profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States. I think that going forward that the convicted felon box on employment applications better be taken off because if you can be the president of the United States, then you should not be prevented from employment in this country."
Hostin also wrung her hands about a health care system that's "now at risk" — and then she looked down and appeared to read from a screen and noted that economists say Trump will "increase the [national] debt by $7.75 trillion." She also noted concerns about "mass deportations and internment camps."
“I'm surprised at the result, but I'm not surprised. As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country,” Hostin concluded. “And I think that it had nothing to do with policy; I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country.”
Sara Haines and even Joy Behar — a dyed-in-the-wool Trump-hater — were more measured in their reactions.
Alyssa Farah Griffin has been touted for a while as the lone Republican at the table — although she said she didn't vote for Trump — and seemed the most understanding of them all.
"We need to bring down the temperature, the name-calling, the demonizing," she said before adding that "it is a moment to listen to the voters. ... I didn't expect [Trump's win] to be this resounding, and I think there are some lessons from it. ... I think we forget about rural America. I think the working class feels left behind. They feel like the powerful, the elite only care about them and their power. And [Trump] spoke to them. We may not have liked his words, but they turned out for him."
You can view a longer segment from Wednesday's episode of "The View" here.
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