Donald Trump blames political correctness for Kentucky Derby chaos

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump blames political correctness for Kentucky Derby chaos

• Maximum Security disqualified as winner after stewards’ review
• 65-1 outside Country House declared winner of race

Guardian sport
Sun 5 May 2019 15.35 BST Last modified on Sun 5 May 2019 15.48 BST

Donald Trump has expressed his displeasure at the result of this year’s Kentucky Derby, blaming the chaos at the end of the race on political correctness.

Link to tweet

For the first time in the 145-year history of the race, the first horse across the finish line was disqualified for a foul on the track. Maximum Security, a 4-1 pre-race favorite, romped home by one-and-three-quarters lengths. But, after a 20-minute review, stewards ruled his hind right leg bumped into War of Will, changing the outcome of the race. Country House, a 65-1 to outsider, was instead declared the winner.

The decision was widely debated, not least among those who had staked a cumulative $6.2m on Maximum Security to win. Maximum Security’s jockey, Luis Saez, believed he had done nothing wrong. “I thought I never put anybody in danger,” Saez said after the race. “My horse shied away from the noise of the crowd and may have ducked out a little.”

Trump, however, firmly was clear about where the blame fell. “The Kentuky [sic] Derby decision was not a good one,” he wrote on Twitter. “It was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close!”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/05/donald-trump-kentucky-derby-country-house-maximum-security

[muntrv]

1. Trump: Derp,derp,derp.

[randr]

2. Every rule, I mean each and every rule

is something that the lsos is averse to.

[mn9driver]

3. Anything, quite literally ANYTHING can be turned against the right's perceived enemies.

The propaganda model has limitless flexibility. Trump wasn’t making a comment on the Derby and its rules; he was using a current headline to attack his enemies, the Democratic Party.

If the DQ hadn’t happened, he would have tweeted that it was obviously a fake race that rewarded cheating, just like fake news or...whatever. And the 40 percent who are indoctrinated would have bought that.

He does this all the time, and the 40 percent believe and internalize it. Every time.

[twogunsid]

4. I like Kentucky Derby winners that aren't DQ'd....

....Trump is a idiot. He spelled Kentucky wrong in his first tweet.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Not Even Close?

The other horse was in 2nd!
And the lead wasn't Secretariat at the Belmont.
By definition, it was close.
What an idiot!