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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.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts Monday struck down the Trump administration’s efforts to require a $100,000 visa fee for highly skilled immigrant workers, finding the policy is an unlawful tax.

Judge Leo T. Sorokin found the hefty fee placed on the H-1B visa by President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by creating a tax, something that falls under Congress’ authority.

The Los Angeles mayoral race has been solidified for November, with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass facing off against city councilwoman Nithya Raman — and MAGA-aligned reality TV star Spencer Pratt being eliminated.

The race was called on Monday evening by CNN and the Associated Press.

President Donald Trump has enjoyed an effective rubber stamp from the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee throughout his time in office — but that could be coming to an end, Roll Call's Savannah Behrman wrote on X Monday.

This comes as a result of two key senators on the committee, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn (R-TX), being effectively freed to speak and vote their minds as they prepare to leave office.

Conservative columnist S.E. Cupp unloaded on President Donald Trump on Monday night after the president stormed out of an interview with NBC News's Kristen Welker over the weekend.

On Friday, Trump stormed out of an interview with Welker when she challenged his claim that the 2020 general election was rigged against him. The interview aired during Sunday's broadcast of "Meet the Press."

A judge appointed to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Donald Trump is under a misconduct investigation after reporting that he was charged with misdemeanor battery over an incident in a parking lot in Idaho Falls.

According to Reuters Legal, "Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Mary Murguia of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an order released on Monday, opens new tab said she had initiated a judicial misconduct complaint" looking into Judge Ryan Nelson, who was first appointed to the court that oversees most appeals of cases on the West Coast in 2018.

Comedian Walter Masterson conducted undercover interviews at a MAGA rally in Florida, wearing an "ultra MAGA" shirt to expose what he characterized as hypocrisy in how President Donald Trump's loyalists view identity and self-expression.

Masterson drew parallels between MAGA rally attire and Pride Month fashion, pointing out similarities that rally attendees apparently failed to acknowledge.

President Donald Trump's Pentagon has quietly deployed paratroopers from the Army's 82nd Airborne in Israel, the latest sign of escalating tensions in the war in Iran, according to a new report.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein reported on his Substack on Monday, citing a military source involved in war planning, that the deployment is part of a contingency plan between the U.S. and Israel "for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran." That plan, Klippenstein reported, has been in place since at least February.