'Did he fall asleep?' Morning Joe host calls out Trump for napping at NBA game

President Donald Trump was spotted dozing during Monday night's NBA Finals game after disrupting the arrival of thousands of fans and even commuters outside the event.

The 79-year-old president's attendance necessitated enhanced security throughout New York City, and ticket holders waited in line for hours to get inside Madison Square Garden and watch parties were canceled outside the arena, but Trump was spotted nodding off as the New York Knicks saw their 13-game postseason win streak snapped by the San Antonio Spurs.

"There's a huge subplot to this game is that the Knicks went into it with a 13-game winning streak," said "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire. "Sort of remarkable, and people are like, what could possibly disrupt them for their rhythm? Well we have an answer – oh, President Trump."

"Did he ruin everything?" asked co-host Mika Brzezinski.

"He showed up last night, creating a huge security perimeter," Lemire replied. "Fans had to stand in line for hours. There was a lot of grumbling when they showed him on the jumbotron during the National Anthem. Mind you, was probably intentional to try to put down the boos. Well, it didn't work. It was thunderous boos from those inside, from both the pool reporter in the building, and you could hear it on the TV broadcast as well. They were very, very, very loud."

"I enjoy that our show notes here that were prepared, it says, you know, 'Trump was there on the same night the Knicks' 13-game winning streak was snapped, parentheses," Lemire added. "There is no evidence of correlation between the two circumstances. I don't know. I think there are a lot of Knicks fans that would beg to differ."

"Did he fall asleep?" Brzezinski interjected.

Lemire agreed there was video footage of Trump dozing, which was shared by the right-leaning New York Post on social media.

"He did not shut down New York and disrupt this game to fall asleep at it," Brzezinski marveled.

"The New York Post Twitter account has footage of Trump pretty clearly falling asleep at some point in the second half," Lemire said.

"No, it can't be," Brzezinski deadpanned. "Not with all that 'Sleepy Joe' stuff. I mean, you can't."

"Well, he managed to find a way," Lemire replied. "He was there, he was booed and now, Game 4 is so gigantic."

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