Trump: "So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans."

[Miles Archer]

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@realDonaldTrump

So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag - they said it loud and clear!
4:25 AM - 25 Sep

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Mike Holden‏
@MikeHolden42

Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Puerto Rico has no water or electricity. Focus on that maybe?

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[bigtree]

1. what does the white majority NASCAR fanbase have to do with the BLM related protests?

...is the government 'disrespecting' them?

Trump is one of the most ignorant people in the country.

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[OKNancy]

2. As someone tweeted so brilliantly

Thinking NFL players are 'protesting the flag' is like thinking Rosa Parks was protesting public transportation

[demmiblue]

3. More:

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[Miles Archer]

10. Yeah, Kaepernick is just a son of a bitch in Trump's color-blind eyes

The interesting thing here is that no matter what side of the fence people might have been on regarding Kaepernick's actions, it's impossible to sit back and watch the "President of the United States" pull a racist shock & awe campaign against him.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the "both sides in Charlottesville" rhetoric. Trump has wrapped himself in the flag and rallied his NASCAR buds around him. Make no mistake about it...this is absolutely about racism.

Former (current?) MSNBC personality Toure had this to say:

Trump’s attack on players proves he’s infuriated by a black man making millions: Touré

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trumps-attack-on-players-proves-theyre-bothered-by-a-black-man-making-millions-toure/

Connect the dots, you know? Go all the way back to Trump and his KKK dad Fred discriminating in their rental properties. And in 2017, I think we are well past the point of people of color allowing themselves to be bullied by racist scum like Trump.

[HAB911]

4. Rednecks love rednecks

Who knew?!

[CozyMystery]

5. I took my boys to a NASCAR race when they were 11 years old.

It was the only time in their childhood that they saw drunk people and drunk people fighting (in the row ahead of ours). They were very interested in that, but thankfully their interest in NASCAR evaporated quickly.

When the drunks were fighting (also the first time I saw grown men fight), I jumped up to protect my children, since the drunks were right there. My boys also remember that. Luckily, I didn't have to manhandle the drunks because they were pretty violent.

[RobinA]

9. Avoid Pro Football!

And some college football, from what I've seen at one Big Ten school who shall remain nameless.

[Blue_Adept]

6. Modern day authorarianism

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Meanwhile, NASCAR is losing its fanbase and viewers. . .

. . .many of their fans can't afford it anymore.

[RobinA]

8. Really

we've got part of our country seeming completely cut off and basically camping to get by. Anybody heard from the lower Keys lately? Another part totally devastated. NK saying attacks on America is "inevitable," even if you don't believe the rhetoric, it still needs to be dealt with, and the "President" is spending time lecturing professional athletes on his notion of flag etiquette. He should be working to make sure the flag means something, rather than complaining that it isn't being given its proper deference.

[dalton99a]

11. Because they worship his worthless ass

[dembotoz]

12. An item on my bucket list continues to be a NASCAR race..it just keeps moving down

Stock cars were a sport of my youth.
Loved to watch the stockers run on the local dirt tracks.

Stock cars were a sport available to the common man in my neighborhood. The guy down the block had a gas station that sponsored a car.. before it got expensive

Live too far north so NASCAR growth came at expense of the local organization. So the hard southern culture with Nascar didn't travel well.

[exboyfil]

13. Grew up watching NASCAR with my dad

Had a family reunion 15 years ago at the race in Las Vegas. It was boring. I have not subjected my daughters to it.

It is kind of like fishing. I liked it because my dad liked it.

I do things my kids want to do (that is why I hauled my daughter to dog agility for eight years while she was growing up). Now that she is an adult earning her own money - I notice she hasn't done another agility trial.

It is interesting that the National Anthem was of so little important 20 years ago, that the tracks did not arrange for the drivers to stand outside the cars. Logistics is more important than respect for the flag?