{"id":96027,"date":"2020-02-18T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96027"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:49","slug":"president-trump-opens-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96027","title":{"rendered":"President Trump opens Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Donald Trump gave an election-year embrace to NASCAR and its fans Sunday when he became the second president ever to attend the Daytona 500. The presidential motorcade took to the track to join in a warm-up lap after he had told the crowd that the racers and their teams were competing \u201cfor pure American glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a recitation of the opening command, \u201cGentleman, start your engines,\u201d Trump got into his black limousine for a ceremonial spin around Daytona International Speedway. He had joked moments earlier in a Fox interview that while as president, he was not allowed to drive his own car, \u201d I\u2019m going to hop into one of these cars and I\u2019m going to get into this race if possible. I love the idea.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Given the honor of grand marshal for the race, Trump gave thousands of fans a flyover of Air Force One and then rode onto the track in the presidential motorcade as the audience roared with delight. The motorcade took roughly a quarter lap before pulling aside in an infield staging area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aTsk8DGCcmc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/293884104\/gh5LeNtQaQ_default\/index.html?videoId=6133082628001\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5785130\/donald-trump-daytona-500\/\">Source: Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; President Donald Trump gave an election-year embrace to NASCAR and its fans Sunday when he &hellip; <a title=\"President Trump opens Daytona 500\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96027\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Trump opens Daytona 500<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":96028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-election","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96029,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96027\/revisions\/96029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}