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President Donald Trump faced another round of jeers after insisting that he was not booed during a performance of the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

The 79-year-old became the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game Monday night at the Madison Square Garden, where his hometown crowd booed him lustily before the New York Knicks lost their first game in the postseason, but Trump afterward insisted he heard only cheers when his face was shown on the screen inside the arena.

The White House vehemently denied a report last Friday about a heightened counterintelligence threat, but on Monday night, Vice President JD Vance appeared to undercut that denial with a blatant but indirect admission.

On Friday, NBC News reported that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat level on Israel to “critical” – its “highest level” – amid concerns that the Middle East nation was “ramping up its spying on the U.S.” The White House dismissed the report as entirely “false,” and claimed the source of the information – two U.S. officials and one former official – did not “have any knowledge of what’s going on.”

National security professionals inside the Trump administration are outraged after President Donald Trump made one of the worst appointments in his political tenure, according to one expert.

David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, said on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Monday that insiders he's spoken with were shocked when Trump appointed Bill Pulte, the administration's former mortgage chief, as the next Director of National Intelligence. Rothkopf said his sources were outraged by Pulte's willingness to do what Trump tells him and his lack of experience in the role, which is defined by federal law.

Ana Navarro, a senior political commentator on CNN, snapped at a former Trump campaign official on Monday night after the official defended the president's attacks against NBC News's Kristen Welker during an interview over the weekend.

Welker traveled to Wisconsin to interview President Donald Trump for her Sunday show, "Meet the Press." The interview became combative after Welker challenged Trump to provide evidence for his claim that the 2020 general election was stolen from him. Trump abruptly ended the interview after that, and made some disturbing comments about Welker as he stormed off set.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor rebuked the Mississippi Supreme Court for applying a problematic standard in the case of Tony Terrell Clark, a Black death row inmate convicted by a jury of 11 white people and one Black juror.

The all-conservative Mississippi Supreme Court denied Clark's latest appeal, which Justice Sotomayor agreed with. However, she wrote this revealed, "A double standard where the State struck Black jurors who took anything but the most hardline pro-death penalty position, but not white jurors who expressed serious doubts about the death penalty."

President Donald Trump's supporters are spreading a flurry of conspiracy theories about mail ballots after MAGA-aligned reality star Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral primary race — but he never had a chance, election data analyst Harry Enten told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday evening.

"Harry, can you tell us what the numbers actually are and what we are looking at in places like L.A.?" asked Collins.

Rachel Maddow could hardly contain her glee Monday night as she walked viewers through the frosty reception President Donald Trump received outside Madison Square Garden, where he was loudly booed before Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.

"Do you want to see the warm, warm welcome the president of the United States got tonight when he decided to pretend to be a basketball fan?" Maddow asked before rolling footage of fans greeting Trump's arrival with jeers and raised middle fingers.

President Donald Trump's efforts to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City on Monday night astounded one political analyst because of how they blew up in the president's face.

Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game, and was met with boos both inside and outside of the arena. Fans booed his motorcade as it arrived at Madison Square Garden, and he was booed again as the camera panned over to his suite during the National Anthem.

President Donald Trump got a tongue-lashing over his war in Iran by conservative-leaning columnist Max Boot in The Washington Post on Monday.

This comes after Boot warned months before how unprepared the administration was to wage a real war — a warning he believes is now validated.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) drew widespread mockery after blaming former President Joe Biden for the screwworm infestation threatening Texas cattle, despite the Trump administration's own cuts to monitoring programs designed to prevent it.

Rollins claimed the parasite began making its way toward America under Biden's open borders policy. Marshall went further, claiming migrants "brought this screwworm with them."

President Donald Trump was viciously booed by the crowd at Madison Square Garden on Monday night during the National Anthem for Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.

ABC cameras caught Trump saluting in his suite while the anthem played, and it was the only time Trump was shown during the introduction. He attended the game with Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, as well as administration officials like Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Lee Zeldin, who leads the Environmental Protection Agency.

Jared Kushner's foreign business entanglements make Hunter Biden's overseas dealings look minor by comparison, an investigative author argued this week, accusing Washington of waving through a conflict of interest that dwarfs the one Republicans spent years probing.

Casey Michel, whose forthcoming book "United States of Oligarchy" examines oligarchic influence in America, made the case on The Bulwark podcast on Monday alongside host Andrew Egger. He argued that Kushner went from being widely mocked in Middle Eastern diplomatic circles during Trump's first term to a billionaire reliant on money from Gulf autocrats.