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Trump attended Game 3, making him the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Officers also attended a number of smaller, but peaceful demonstrations on Tuesday in Edinburgh, Falkirk, Perth, Ayr and Paisley, and no arrests were made.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Since then, Infantino has attended all kinds of events that don’t explicitly require the president of soccer’s governing body to be there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

On Monday, during game three of the NBA Finals that US President Donald Trump attended, police detained 21 people in New York.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

On his days off, he went to political demonstrations, and in the evenings he attended classes in Paris, including one by the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French