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Why MAGA can’t hear the Trump boos

Once you understand the MAGA reaction to the NBA Finals boos, everything else snaps into focus

Published June 11, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)

The most revealing moment of Donald Trump’s week was not the boos that rained down on him at Madison Square Garden on Monday night. It was the almost instantaneous insistence, by him and his media ecosystem, that the boos never happened. What we witnessed this week — the feverish, almost liturgical insistence that a crowd loudly booing the president of the United States was actually chanting “USA!” — is something more disturbing and dangerous than ordinary propaganda. It’s now clear that the crisis we face is not a lack of information; it is a profound detachment from reality, cultivated by right-wing media and anchored by a president who demands that his followers reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.

Because once you understand why MAGA can’t hear those boos, everything else — from the right’s election denialism to Trump storming out of interviews — snaps into focus.

The Knicks had won 13 consecutive games to reach the NBA Finals, the second-longest unbeaten playoff run in league history. They hadn’t lost a game since April 23. Then Trump decided to show up. Chants of “USA” echoed through the arena as Avery Wilson sang the national anthem, but they gave way to boos the moment Trump appeared on the Jumbotron, giving a military salute. The jeers were loud, sustained and unambiguous —........

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