1. Last night the “mostly peaceful” Knicks celebration sparked an outbreak of reporter incompetence. CBS reporter Adi Guajardo was covering the watch party at Radio City Music Hall and was speaking to ecstatic fans inside the famed theater after the Knicks won that first NBA championship in 53 years. But in the middle of Guajardo’s interview with one fan, another off-camera could be heard loudly saying: “The Knicks did it! The Knicks fucking won!” The reporter freaked out, crying “No, no, no, stop, sorry,” and “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh” before she cut the interview short. Guajardo sent the feed back to the studio, which switched to a different part of the celebration in a different part of New York.

2. At this stage in the deterioration of civility, it is absurd for reporters to act like the use of “fuck” is some kind of felony. That horse left the barn long ago. President Trump has employed “fuck” in rallies, interviews, and official press conferences. Joe Biden was caught on a hot microphone in 2010 whispering to President Barack Obama that the Affordable Care Act signing was a “big fucking deal.” Dick Cheney famously told Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to “go fuck himself” on the Senate floor in 2004. Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib said that she was going to “fucking impeach” President Trump at a public rally. Jasmine Crockett has been a serial fuck-monger in social media posts and media reactions regarding her frustration with political events, as has Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego. It was an irresponsible aversion to the word that led another reporter to lie about what a crowd was chanting (“Fuck Joe Biden!”) at a NASCAR race, and she transformed the chant into “Let’s Go Brandon!” If the use of the word “fuck” is part of the news, a competent reporter shouldn’t try to hide it.

3. President Trump was booed when he attended a Knicks-Spurs play-off game. I know, this has happened many times in U.S. history, notably when Herbert Hoover was jeered at a baseball game. Whatever the circumstances, it is always unethical. The office of the Presidency deserves respect.

4. The Democrats’ perpetually unethical House leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized President Trump’s appearance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals, claiming Trump is “injecting himself” into the event and bringing “the MAGA circus into town.” That was pure Trump Hate on display and being deliberately spread by an elected official who should know better.

Presidents have been attending sporting events for more than a century, but somehow only Trump is attacked for it. “It also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan,” Jeffries said. What an asshole. The creep shot off his mouth without checking the facts. But then so many things aren’t clear to Jeffries. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver felt compelled to point out that Trump has long been a passionate Knicks fan and attended games frequently when he lived in New York. Trump has called himself a lifelong fan of the team, and unlike, for example, Hillary Clinton famously declaring herself a Yankees fan when she was carpetbagging in New York, he is telling the truth. Silver said that sports should be something that unites people, not divides them, and encouraged people to look for the things they “have in common and build off that.” That would be nice, but its hard to do when one political party regards hate as its best (only?) campaign tool.

5. [Added] I am reading social media posts, some by celebrities, saying that their enjoyment as Knicks fans of the team’s championship has been “ruined” by the knowledge that President Trump was rooting for their team. This is Trump Derangement as mental illness. The Axis of Unethical Conduct is, among its other misdeeds, is making American mentally ill.

6. Here’s a twofer! Remember how candidate Trump holding a rally in Madison Square Garden was represented by MSNBC and other as evidence that he was a Nazi in 2024? Taylor Swift and her long-time football star lover are going to rent out the Garden for a conspicuous consumption, rich-people wedding, and strangely, the fact that the venue hosted Nazi rallies in the Thirties has never been mentioned, perhaps because the fact is irrelevant and stupid. Nor does this absurd waste of money bother the crazies who are attacking Elon Musk, who creates companies, products, jobs and innovations with his money, for being “too rich.” Musk was also smeared because an awkward hand gesture frozen by a photo looked like a Nazi salute. Today the same critics are supporting a Maine Senate candidate who deliberately had a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.

If it weren’t for double standards….