But Trump didn’t hear it that way.

“I think mostly cheers,” he told reporters after the game. “It was loud, and it was very enthusiastic.”

That doesn’t match footage of the event, or the White House pool report, which notes that the president was “thunderously booed” when he was shown on screen inside Madison Square Garden in New York.

President Donald Trump didn't get an entirely warm welcome in his hometown as he arrived at Madison Square Garden.

AP Photo/Ryan Murphy

Fans outside the arena could be heard cursing at Trump as he arrived at the end of a clip the president himself posted on social media.

Given all that, Trump’s critics on social media weren’t buying his claim that it was “mostly cheers.”

They responded with some jeers of their own: