Trump to attend Daytona 500 on Sunday
President Trump is set to attend the Daytona 500 on Sunday, a week after he attended the Super Bowl in New Orleans, a White House official told The Hill.
The president will travel to his Mar-a-Lago resort Friday to spend the weekend in Palm Beach, Fla., and on Sunday make the trip to Daytona International Speedway — about 200 miles up the Florida coast.
Nascar driver Bubba Wallace, who in 2020 was falsely accused by Trump of carrying out a "hoax" involving an apparent noose found in his garage stall, said he “couldn’t care less” if Trump attends the race, The Associated Press reported.
Trump in 2020 lashed out on social media at NASCAR and Wallace — the only Black full-time driver in the top flight of NASCAR — citing the racing circuit’s decision to ban Confederate flags from its facilities and saying Wallace should apologize over the controversy involving a garage he had been assigned to in Alabama.
Following the social media backlash, Wallace said in a statement in that Americans should meet hate with love, “Even when it’s hate from the POTUS.”
An FBI investigation concluded Wallace was not the target of a hate crime and that the noose had likely been in the garage for months, but NASCAR President Steve Phelps said in a statement that “the noose was real,” and the racing circuit released an image to show it was not a hoax.
Ashleigh Fields contributed.
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