It is rumored that President Donald Trump will attend Daytona 500, but the Bubba Wallace pilot is not interested in his possible presence in the race.
Wallace and Trump fought previously in 2020, after the sport was recovered around the driver, the only black driver in the Nascar Cup series, after the discovery of the rope in his position assigned in Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.
The federal authorities then ruled that the rope had been hanging since the previous October and was not a hate crime. Trump continued to say that Wallace should apologize and call the test as a “deception”, with the driver responding by condemning the president for his “hatred” on social networks
Now in his second term as president, Trump is expected to be in Daytona 500 on Sunday, and Wallace said “I couldn't care less” if it were in the stands.
“We are here to compete,” Wallace said on Day of Daytona 500. 'Not for the show.'
Trump came to Wallace on social networks after the rope was found in 2020, but decided not to be a hate crime by the authorities.
Bubba Wallace has said that “I couldn't care less” that President Trump attended the Daytona 500
It is rumored that Trump will attend the race this Sunday, although it has not yet been confirmed
“It has been chosen @bubbawallace to all those great drivers and officials of Nascar who came to their aid, stayed by their side and were willing to sacrifice everything for him, just to discover that everything was just another hoax.” In July 2020.
Wallace then wrote: “Always deal with the hatred that they throw with love! … Love should be natural since people are taught to hate. Even when I hate for potus.
Around that time, Wallace was also an open critic of the Confederate flag, and Nascar prohibited the flag of his events after driver's pressure.
Trump added in a subsequent publication on social networks that the decision to ban the flag had resulted in the 'lower qualifications in history. (Nascar's qualifications had actually increased from previous years, according to Speed report).
A notice of the Federal Aviation Administration published on Monday indicated that Trump was expected to attend the race, but Nascar said Wednesday that he had not received confirmation.
Last weekend, Trump made history as the first president to attend the Super Bowl, while the Eagles defeated the Chiefs.
There was a variety of reactions to that players' news before the game, since the Eagles supporter, Zack Baun, insisted that Trump's presence in the game did not increase the pressure of the occasion.
'No. There will be many big names and celebrities in the game, “he said. 'Without pressure'.
Meanwhile, the closed wing of the Chiefs, Noah Gray, said it was going to be “incredible” to have Trump in the Superdome.
His teammate, the supporter Drue Tranquill, also said that it would be “great” to have the president there.
Trump left the game early with the Eagles leading comfortably.