On Sunday, former President Trump flew over the Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina in his private jet, dubbed “Trump Force One,” before attending the NASCAR race.
Trump Force One flied The race took place at Charlotte Motor Speedway around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, drawing loud cheers from the crowd.
“We’re going through Charlotte Motor Speedway. So excited! DJT.” The former president wrote: on Truth Society Sunday.
The Coca-Cola 600 is the longest and only NASCAR Cup Series race held from day to night in Concord, North Carolina. The race was scheduled It will begin at 6pm ET.
Ahead of Sunday night’s kickoff, Trump Met with Gold Star families At the races I saw a C-17 fly He got out of the truck, according to Deputy Public Information Officer Margo Martin.
A video posted by Martin shows protesters chanting “USA” and “you’re our man Trump” as former president Trump makes his way to the speedway’s “pit road” grandstand.
Trump’s visit will mark the first time a sitting or former president has attended a race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord. According to multiple media reports. In 2020, Trump won the 62ndand He served as Grand Marshal at the Daytona 500 race, becoming just the second president in history to hold the title after President George W. Bush in 2004.
Democrats saw his visit as an opportunity to criticize President Trump and his policy positions.
The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina report Two signs reading “BEWARE: Trump’s Extreme MAGA” appeared in the city last week, vowing not to allow the former president to “ban abortion nationwide, increase the costs for working families, or strip away health insurance.”
The billboard was reportedly paid for by the Democratic National Convention (DNC), according to the Charlotte Observer. The Hill has reached out to the DNC for comment.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, currently holds a slim 1 percentage point lead over President Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
The former president’s campaign time has been limited in recent weeks due to an ongoing hush-money lawsuit in New York in which he faces 34 charges of falsifying records in connection with payments made to former operative Michael Cohen before the 2016 election.
Trump’s defense wrapped up arguments last Tuesday without calling the former president as a witness, and the jury was dismissed until closing arguments begin this Tuesday. The jury’s verdict is scheduled to follow shortly thereafter.
Updated at 7:57 p.m.
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