President Trump is taking part in this year’s Daytona 500. Not as a driver, but as grand marshal, which means he gets to give the “start your engines” command to the 43 entrants in The Great American Race.
It’ll mark the first time a president, sitting or former, has ever held the role. The only other time a sitting president attended the race was when George Bush came in 2004, the year Dale Earnhardt Jr. won his first 500.
Earnhardt was grand marshal in 2018 and will be on the stand this Sunday to wave the green flag as honorary starter.
Trump was endorsed in 2016 by former NASCAR CEO Brian France Jr., has hosted series champions Joey Logano and Martin Truex Jr. at The White House and gave NASCAR team owner Roger Penske the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year.
I can hear the leftard twits now. The world is burning and Trump is at Nascar race.
This is freaken priceless. Pure Trump
https://youtu.be/5B9ZB94IuCc
Nascar is the only thing in the world you do when you turn left the fastest….you win….
Remember when Big Mike went to the NASCAR race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOoS01G9w4
Rumor is he’s gonna take a lap in the presidential limo.
Meh nascar. The cars got stupid, restrictor plate racing is absurd, the drivers are all corporate, it seems as fixed as pro wrasseling now, and kind of lost interest anyway when they chose to go with the perpetually butthurt over the Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2015/06/29/nascar-the-death-of-the-confederate-flag-and-the-first-amendment/
Is this the first smart move in sports history for the last ten years? Most watch ever?
“Tim, Tim, Benzedrine!
Hash! Boo! Valvoline!
Clean! Clean! Clean for Gene!
First, second, neutral, park,
hie thee hence, you leafy narc!”
“Bored of the Rings”, Harvard Lampoon
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/93218013
^^^^ lol … haven’t heard ‘hi thee hence’ since 9th grade when I played Romeo in the school play ^^^^
Reagan: attends 1984 Firecracker 400 July race at Daytona during 4th year of first term…wins re-election.
Bush: attends 2004 Daytona 500 in 4th year of first term…wins re-election.
Trump: attends 2020 Daytona 500 in 4th year of first term….
This is getting monotonous
BB — Never saw that! That’s great!
Did Trump make up the phrase, “Go big or go home.”?
I’m about 50 miles away and I bet I’ll hear the cheers when the President makes the announcement.
I’m glad to see that despite the rigors and stress of that office President Trump hasn’t forgot to keep some time aside for having fun.
Besides, seeing the President so upbeat all the time just adds to the leftists gloom.
This year they’ll be going the other direction and only making right turns!
The only thing “Big Mike” and Nascar have in common is the color of the track.
He should have “The Beast” custom painted with “MAGA 2020” just for the occasion. Put straight pipes on it. Do a couple laps with an escort of SS SUV’s, lights flashing.
I’ll watch the anthem.
I’ll watch the President.
But there is no way I’m watching a “3 stage race” 30% under yellow flags.
No issues with the drivers or car racing, just the way the races are run.
mickey moussaoui- That’s a great idea. He wouldn’t have to paint it. He could have a wrap made for it! The libs heads would go critical-mass.
Nothing more boring than a Nascar race, expect a football, baseball, basketball game.
I only do drag racing!
Anonymous:
Is that traditional drag racing with 2 cars & a quarter mile track
or
New style with 2 drag queens racing to a book reading at the library.