{"id":1473,"date":"2020-02-21T13:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:12:26","slug":"trump-takes-presidential-limo-for-lap-at-daytona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/trump-takes-presidential-limo-for-lap-at-daytona-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Takes Presidential Limo for Lap at Daytona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/620px-Donald_Trump_The_Beast_arrived_at_Number_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/620px-Donald_Trump_The_Beast_arrived_at_Number_10.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/620px-Donald_Trump_The_Beast_arrived_at_Number_10-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>US President Trump&nbsp;kicked off&nbsp;the prestigious NASCAR\u2019s\nDaytona 500 on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump rode in the\nPresidential limo as they were taking a pace lap ahead of the start of the Great\nAmerican Race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>After announcing the start of the race as the honorary &#8220;grand\nmarshal\u201d and giving the command for racers to start their engines, drawing\ncheers from the crowd, Trump took a lap around in the armored presidential\nlimo, dubbed &#8220;The Beast.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Trump is the second-ever president to deliver the iconic\u00a0Nascar race command,\u00a0&#8220;Gentlemen, start your engines!&#8221;\u00a0and the first of presidents to take a lap in the armored presidential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/\">limousine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does it matter?&nbsp;Florida, home of the Daytona 500, is a\nkey swing state and has been a target of the Trump campaign as the president increases\nhis re-election effort. Last June, Trump announced his 2020 campaign in Orlando,\nchanged his voter registration and listed his south Florida Mar-a-Lago resort\nas his primary residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad Parscale, Trump campaign manager, said in a statement that NASCAR\nfans are patriots who support the president in huge numbers, and that is why it\nis better to communicate directly with them about \u201cKeeping America Great during\nthe Great American Race.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2020\/02\/17\/trumps-reelection-campaign-goes-pedal-to-the-metal-at-daytona-500-1261762\">PoliticoFlorida<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Trump&nbsp;kicked off&nbsp;the prestigious NASCAR\u2019s Daytona 500 on Sunday. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump rode in the Presidential limo as they were taking a pace lap ahead of the start of the Great American Race at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/trump-takes-presidential-limo-for-lap-at-daytona-500\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}