Jemele Hill

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1,138 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2024 last heard 6 Sep

Jemele Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Don Lemon Show · Did Donald Trump Cost the Knicks the Game? · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

And yeah, he did come to some things, but he had enough self-awareness to know that when I come to something, it better be important and it better be planned out in a certain way because I'm inconveniencing everybody with security, with logistics.

with just my mere presence is costing taxpayers money.

He understood this, which is why he didn't do it.

And Donald Trump doesn't have that.

Like he golfs all the time.

We know that his golf tab, what that's cost American taxpayers is quite high.

And

You know, when you look at the grid that they put up before the game of what was blocked off, the only way you were getting into that area was if you had tickets to the game, you were staying at one of the hotels, you were working at one of the businesses.

That was pretty much it.

And imagine being one of those business owners who owns a sports bar around there, who owns a restaurant around there.

This was supposed to be one of your biggest financial days of the year.

I mean, this is one of the biggest sporting events of the year in New York.

And the most important Knicks basketball game since they last had a home finals game in 1999.

And to find out you got cut out of all of that because the president just decided, you know what, I want to come and go to the NBA finals.

It was 1999.

That was the last time the Knicks hosted a finals game.

And, you know, the Knicks haven't won a championship in 53 years.

So this is a lot of special moments.

You have a lot of fans who generations of fans who have been waiting for a Knicks championship.

And already it was bad enough because of the ticket prices that most Knicks fans were completely cut out of even having a thought about going to the game.

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