“How about basketball? How about LeBron?” Trump began as the crowd began to boo.
Saying he “felt badly for LeBron,” Trump claimed that ratings for the sixth and deciding game of the NBA Finals, in which James’s Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, were “down 71 percent” from 2019.
“I didn’t watch one shot — I get bored,” the president said. “Back, forth, back, forth. You know why? When they don’t respect our country, when they don’t respect our flag, nobody wants to watch. Nobody. And the NFL is way down. You got to stand for our flag, you got to really be great to our flag and to our anthem, and if you don’t do that, we’re not watching.”
At that point, Trump turned to listen to chants of “LeBron James sucks!”
“What a crowd! What a crowd!” he exclaimed.
