Late-Night Hosts Take Aim at Trump’s Knicks Game Appearance: ‘He Hit Them With a Jinx’

Late-night television hosts lampooned former President Donald Trump's appearance at a New York Knicks basketball game on Sunday, December 24, 2023. Hosts like Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show" and Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show" highlighted the crowd's audible boos directed at Trump as he sat courtside. Colbert, referencing the intensity of the jeers, quipped that it was the loudest the president had been booed at a sporting event since Abraham Lincoln officiated the coin toss at the Cotton Bowl. The comedians also joked about Trump's perceived jinx on the Knicks, who lost the game to the Boston Celtics with a score of 114-98. Fallon suggested that Trump's presence was a bad omen for the team's performance.