President Trump To Attend Daytona 500
President Donald Trump will be in attendance at the Daytona 500, The White House confirmed on Friday.
Trump was at the 2020 race, where he served as Grand Marshal, a role that will be filled by “Captain America: Brave New World” star Anthony Mackie this year. In 2015, Mackie made a statement suggesting he had endorsed Trump for president, but later said it was a joke.
In a recent interview with Esquire, he was asked about comparisons being made between Trump and the “Brave New World” character Thaddeus Ross played by Harrison Ford, who is the president and the Red Hulk.
“I hope, as a country, we’re tired of all the political jousting,” Mackie said when asked if fans making inevitable comparisons between Red Hulk and Trump, especially now that the latter is back in the White House. “Let’s just go to the movies and chill the f–k out. We could’ve made this motherf–ker yellow and it would’ve been a problem.”
Read Also: THE 5 CLOSEST NASCAR DAYTONA 500 FINISHES
Trump was at the Super Bowl, where he picked the Chiefs to win and called Travis Kelce the best tight end ever, despite his own beef with Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
Details on Trumps visit to Daytona have not been announced, but in 2020 he lapped the track in the presidential “Beast” limousine.
The start time for the Daytona 500 has been moved an hour earlier due to forecasted rain, with the opening ceremonies now scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. ET and the race just after 2 p.m. ET.
Read This Next
