Watch: Kathy Hochul Tries To Mock Trump’s Knicks Fandom, Then Immediately Embarrasses Herself

Democrats have grown so reflexively hostile toward President Donald Trump that even the New York Knicks are now apparently part of the political battlefield.

What should have been a simple sports story about a historic Knicks playoff run quickly turned into another failed anti-Trump attack, this time from New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

With the Knicks advancing to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, President Trump recently said he was interested in attending a game after receiving an invitation from team owner Jim Dolan.

“The Knicks have really, they’ve really suffered for years and they’re doing right now very well,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting.

Trump added that he had been invited while discussing the possibility of attending Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The only problem was that the Knicks took care of business too quickly. New York finished the series in four games, securing its spot in the Finals before a Game 5 could even take place.

For most people, that would have been the end of the story.

But Hochul, like so many Democrats who seem unable to pass up any opportunity to take a swing at Trump, decided to turn the former New Yorker’s Knicks fandom into a political punchline.

Asked Wednesday about Trump’s “lifelong” support for the Knicks, Hochul attempted to mock him.

“I’d ask him to name the starting lineup from the 1993 Championship team and see how he does,” she said, according to the New York Post.

That remark might have sounded clever to her staff.

Unfortunately for Hochul, there was one glaring issue.

There was no 1993 Knicks championship team.

The Knicks did not win the NBA title in 1993. They did not even reach the NBA Finals that year.

The 1993 Finals featured Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls defeating the Phoenix Suns in six games, completing Chicago’s first three-peat and further cementing Jordan’s dynasty as one of the greatest in sports history.

New York reached the NBA Finals one year later, in 1994, but came up short against the Houston Rockets.

Houston defeated the Knicks in seven games, closing out the series with a 90-84 win in Game 7.

The Knicks’ last real NBA championship came in 1973, when Richard Nixon was still serving as president of the United States.

That makes Hochul’s attempted jab especially embarrassing. In her eagerness to score a cheap political point against President Trump, she managed to invent a Knicks title that never happened.

Donald Trump Jr. quickly responded on X, defending his father’s sports knowledge while pointing out Hochul’s botched attack.

“Anyone who knows my father knows he probably knows more about Sports than just about any human being not in the business,” Trump Jr. wrote.

“Kathy’s failed soundbite ain’t gonna land well… just like her policies.”

For a governor of New York to fumble basic Knicks history while trying to question someone else’s fandom is the kind of political own-goal that practically writes itself.

Hochul wanted a viral anti-Trump moment.

Instead, she gave Knicks fans and conservatives another reminder that Trump Derangement Syndrome has a way of making Democrats say the quiet, and sometimes completely inaccurate, part out loud.