Go ahead.
Try to think of a more crass political display during a major sporting event than Trump taking a spin around Daytona International Speedway before Sunday’s Daytona 500 in his presidential limo?
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
(Final Jeopardy music plays in background)
I suppose he could stand on the sidelines with the coaching staff during the Super Bowl and call in plays. Or he could join a foursome with Tiger at The Masters.
But it would be hard. Yet parading his sorry ass around the 2.5-mile track at Daytona is exactly what he plans to do on Sunday while also serving as race grand marshal.
For those unfamiliar with racing, the grand marshal is the person at the start of the race who hollers, “Drivers, start your engines!” That part is not unprecedented. Michelle Obama and Jill Biden were the grand marshals of a race in 2011 — and were booed by the crowd.
But taking a lap — in his limo, for chrissakes — is beyond the pale. It’s all about him — strutting before his base, hijacking yet another sporting event.
Can’t we watch a game/race in peace without having to see his fat ass?
Trump was endorsed back in 2016 by the then-chairman of NASCAR, Brian France, and one of its more popular drivers, Chase Elliott. But demonstrating once again that everything Trump touches dies, France was later arrested and charged with drunk driving and possession of Oxycodone. He’s no longer NASCAR’s chairman.
Still, Trump knows a friendly crowd when he sees one. He doesn’t have the balls to show up anywhere he thinks he might hear some boos, so he goes to the Alabama-LSU game in Alabama, the LSU-Clemson game and the Army-Navy game.