President Donald J. Trump attends Game 3 of the NBA finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, Monday, June 8, 2026, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

America-hating candidates actually are not unusual anymore. Neither are politicians who are working with the support of Democrat socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

But apparently it’s arill not accepted that such a candidate use the iconic logo of the NBA champion New York Knicks to promote herself.

A report at the New York Post confirms the team has dispatched a “cease-and-desist” command to Aber Kawas, that America-despising Mamdani acolyte.

Kawas, who once described 9/11 as the terror attack that a “couple of people did,” was pushing her campaign to voters “by using a doctored version of the Knicks logo on social media posts and campaign stickers throughout her primary run, which ended with her clinching the Democratic nomination for a Queens state Senate seat on Tuesday,” the report said.

Bryan N. Warner, of Madison Square Garden Sports, now has demanded that the Kawas campaign “immediately remove all promotional materials incorporating Knicks Intellectual Property, including but not limited to the unauthorized Advertisements, and cease any further use of Knicks Intellectual Property.”

His letter, obtained by the Post, said the use of such “intellectual property” had not been authorized.

Worse, it could lead the public to believe the campaign is affiliated with the team, the letter said.

Suspected offenses involve, “trademark infringement, trademark dilution, false advertising, false association, and unfair competition.”

Kawas had promoted herself using the same font, orange-and-blue colors and iconic basketball found on the team’s logo.

Kawas’ fame includes her unsettling perspective about the 9/11 terror attack by Muslims on the U.S., an event that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people.

Her comments, resurfaced on social media, included, “The system of capitalism and racism and white supremacy et cetera — and Islamophobia — have all been used, you know, to colonize lands, to take resources from other people, and so this is a long trajectory and we are just seeing the manifestations of that continuation … with 9/11. The idea we have to apologize for like a terror attack that like a couple of people did and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery, et cetera — is something I find reprehensible.”