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17 Feb 2025


NextImg:Trump’s Daytona 500 Spectacle Fuels Accusations Of Double Standards
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Donald Trump’s spin Sunday on the Daytona International Speedway track in the presidential limousine ― ahead of the Daytona 500 opening event of the Nascar series ― drew accusations of hypocrisy and double standards on social media.

As did Trump’s earlier flyover of the track aboard Air Force One.

Critics slammed the stunts’ cost to taxpayers.

They also recalled the money that would have been spent on Trump’s trip last weekend to watch the Super Bowl.

And they noted the stark contrast with those costs and how the president himself has tasked tech billionaire Elon Musk with slashing public spending as part of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency.

Donald Trump is once again blowing millions of taxpayer dollars on another self-serving trip, this time to the Daytona 500.

Where’s DOGE?pic.twitter.com/hfpbEgNb3o

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 16, 2025

Not very DOGE to burn all that fuel flying over Daytona. Wasting taxpayer dollars. #daytona500

Sarah Stierch (@sarahstierch.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T17:51:58.911Z

Donald Trump attending the NASCAR Daytona 500 is a massive waste of taxpayer money.

Where TF is DOGE? pic.twitter.com/mSbfbEtqKv

— Art Candee ???????? (@ArtCandee) February 16, 2025

First the Super Bowl.Now the Daytona 500.He's not a real president -- he just plays one on TV.And it's costing the American people TENS OF MILLIONS in extra, unnecessary, wasteful spending.Maybe THAT is what "DOGE" should be cutting?

Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T00:15:52.306Z

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Trump burned $25,000 in jet fuel, doing laps around Daytona in Air Force One, which will be paid for out of grandpa’s social security benefits.
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— Carlos Turnbull (@cturnbull1968) February 16, 2025