Trump’s DC Grand Prix Event Turns Into a Disaster

This is the indie car street race as part of Freedom 250 that the Trump regime has been talking about

“while the American people are struggling to afford groceries and gas and diesel and anything”

and everything. The Trump regime is focused on things like this. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix. I'll show you some photos of what it looked like outside in Washington, D.C. where they effectively shut down the city to build a 1.7 mile long track around Washington, D.C. to race these indie cars. You can see it was not all that crowded. The Trump regime claimed they were going to have hundreds of thousands of people there. They did not really have all that many people there.

But also it's proven to be as everybody expected it would be a very dangerous track for the racers.

These cars really are meant to do street racing like this. I mean there is some street racing that

they do but that's not really what they're supposed. These cars were built for in areas like this. And so we knew that the Trump regime was spending a lot of time welding down 200 manhole covers ahead of this race. There were a lot of bumps on the street as well. And I was watching this so you don't have to watch it. But it was indie car after indie car was crashing into the wall. One after the other, these very expensive cars were just like getting destroyed. And if you

looked at what was happening as they're riding on the road that's not meant for this type of racing. There was like a kicker bump before one of the intersections by like a crosswalk area, which kind of kicks the back end of the car and the back unloads and what you see is the kind of rear tire brake pressure locks. And then the car loses control and then smashes into the wall. And it was like one car after one car smashing into the wall as I was washing the watch in

this thing. So Saturday was the qualifying round and some of the practice sessions. Sunday is the

“actual race itself. And I just think it's going to, I think we're going to, I'm worried about”

what's going to happen on Sunday, based on what I've seen on Saturday. Doug Bergum, the interior secretary responsible for fabricating evidence against a two-time Olympic canoeist in the reflecting pool, David Hurn in order to frame David Hurn. This is the type of stuff that Doug Bergum is doing right now. And so he's behind the Indy car street race, Freedom 250 Grand Prix that this is what like the Trump regime has been talking about this whole week. Again, while we're in a

catastrophic war, while the American economy is in a catastrophic state. I mean, Donald Trump hasn't even addressed the fact that we're in a full-fledged trade war with Canada now as a result of his horrific conduct and behavior and bad faith negotiation. But this is what they're talking about. I mean, it's like an insane psychotic regime we have here in the United States. Doug Bergum earlier

“today was bragging about the manhole covers were being welded down, play this clip.”

Mr. Secretary, you know, it's certainly hoping for a big crowd at this 250,000. I've seen the course, some of those turns are pretty tight. How do you keep spectators safe during such an unprecedented event? Well, the the Pensky team and the Indy car series team that helped build this thing and take it every promotion, you'll see these concrete barriers everywhere in the high fences.

They've even gone so far as making sure they're welding. The manhole covers down, so they don't get sucked up like a back hit when these cars fly over the top of them. And of course, fans will be kept in a safe area. But it is a there's a huge area on the National Mall with March, March, videos, screens, where fans are going to be able to watch. We expect over a race weekend, yesterday, today and tomorrow there could be a million people that are here in person. But,

you know, shout out shout out to the National Park Service, which manage the National Mall, our U.S. Parties, and others, because it should have been nonstop events, the great American state care, the U.S. C. fights, the record setting, world record setting fireworks when we had.

There'll be 40 million people that transfers the National Mall this year. It's never looked

better. 150 free homeless encampments all resolved. Thousands of sites are graffiti gone. 22 fountains that haven't worked for decades flowing again. 50 plus monuments restored and statues. The place looks beautiful. And of course, the statistics of DC are the end being of almost every other city, because the lowest they've been here since 1900. And then you had transportation, secretary, Sean Duffy, and he was bragging about the races. And the American

groceries. We can't afford gas. We can't afford rent. What the hell you've ripped away our health care?

“Well, we know one wants this. What do you do is this? What are you doing play this clip?”

We're actually standing on Pennsylvania Avenue right now, which is insane to me. I mean, we're going to see literally people going, you've said a hundred and seventy miles per hour. Talk to me about how you got this ready. Well, if you walked down the track, we'll see those different scrapes. We've got to scrape the track and take out some of the bumps, especially around manhole covers. So you don't see one here. There's a significant bump. What happens?

What a race car. What are these over there? So these cars are so low to the ground. They'll start to bottom out. Right? And so they'll take some, some height off either side of the manhole cover. A lot of work is going into this. It's going to be epic. All in celebration of America, the greatest country on earth and our birthday. Well, answer the question. Boeing SpaceX, Amazon, many other companies that do these quid pro quo deals with Donald Trump,

they're sponsoring this event. By the way, they get a lot of money from the taxpayers as well.

“So the corporate sponsors, they seem to be the ones getting the good seats. I think a lot of the”

people there in DC, I mean, I guess it's indie cars. It's cool to watch. There's not really that many great seats. You know, but I'm not anti indie car. I like indie car. I like NASCAR. I like Formula One. I mean, it's not like the number one thing that I like to do. I like football and soccer, college football and soccer or international. We call football better. But you know, it's cool. It's cool. But like, why is this in Washington, DC? This is dangerous.

This is lame to do this in DC. I mean, I want my government to like help with healthcare and not get us involved in catastrophic wars with Netanyahu and not do all these quid pro quo deals with these corporations that are behind this event. And the whole thing is just, it's just a bizarre exchange. I'll show you over here. You can see from one angle what it looked like, from some of the buildings nearby. Why don't I bring it? I did this interview yesterday with Ben Weiss before

the event took place. He's a reporter from courthouse news in Washington, DC. Here's what he said

was going on. Let's bring in my interview with Ben Weiss. Now I want to bring in Ben Weiss of courthouse news to talk about this freedom to 50 grand pre-event. You're in Washington, DC. Ben, you've been able to see on Friday what the setup looked like. I'm hearing from people who know IndyCar. Number one looks very dangerous in terms of the way the turns are structured. That these types of roads are not meant for IndyCar. Separately, I'm hearing from a lot of sources inside

Washington, DC. How this has disrupted day-to-day life within the city itself. It's shut down a metro for photo ops. And it's basically the same thing. If anyone's been to DC where there's a motorcade and it shuts down like lots of blocks. But this is like kind of all of DC. I'm hearing or a lot of

it right now. And it's hard to kind of get around. And then third, I'm hearing. And again,

you're there. I'm hearing that it's a bizarre event for a lot of reasons, too. Because even though they say they expect a hundred thousand fans to be there every day. It doesn't seem like there's great places to watch it unless you're a VIP corporate sponsor, like a Boeing or a Starlink or you've coordinated with an embassy. And you may have done something that looks like a Quiddbroke quiddish with a Trump as part of this. And then we see the photos of Melania by the IndyCar,

race cars and the helmets and all of these things. And there's a broader story here of the American people are struggling right now. And we're seeing gas prices and diesel prices hit all time highs. And they're doing this event. So let's break it down piece by piece. First, Ben, what were you able to see on Friday? What were your observations? Then let's go from there.

“Yeah, look, from a racing standpoint, I think it's important to point out, you know,”

there's never been a street motor race in the streets of Washington before. Back in 2002,

there was a similar race for a not-defunct motor sport series. But that was way out by RFK Stadium. It was more of a proper circuit. This is a street circuit. That said, IndyCar is a century-old institution. They've been doing street races for many years. This is not terribly dissimilar in terms of layout from some of the other street races that are on the calendar. That said, none of these drivers have done this before. Most of them have not driven in the

simulators. We were talking to some of the drivers today. And some of them were going to be out there

to say exactly what the racing will look like, how dangerous it will be, what the odds of a crash are. Although there are some tight terms and some folks in the press, where we're asking drivers,

you know, are you going to take it a little easy going into the first term considering no one's

done this track or no one has driven this track in any serious way yet? And there were some

“mixed results. I think the drivers are thinking about how to approach this because it could be”

potentially, you know, I'm trying to territory for that. Let's go to the next part, which is DC proper right now. I've heard the metro, there were issues there on Friday with photo ops and things like that. And also some of the views that reporters were able to get, I think, we're from embassy rooftops. And so I'm curious what the fan experience is going to be on this and is there how are there fans or is this more of the Trump people saying, you know, the same way they said

for the event, uh, American fair that there was hundreds of thousands of people a day and then we

ended up seeing it was actually, you know, a handful of people and then they still went with hundreds of thousands of people. What's what's your take from what you saw in Friday? Well, no doubt, uh, the road closure situation, especially downtown DC has been frustrating. I think for a lot of people who live in Washington, like I do in that other people who I talk to, who, you know, are upset. You know, the National Mall has been shut down in some capacity for, for several months, whether it's

further, but the reflecting pool renovations with the state fair that happened, uh, you know,

“a couple of weeks ago, and now there's indie car race. I think that that people are upset”

about how difficult it is to traverse the center of the capital right now. Metro is, you know,

Metro on the summer is always, uh, there are always track issues that took me an hour and a half

to get home, um, but it was, I think, unrelated to the, uh, the Grand Prix. Um, yeah, it's still sort of early, uh, the number of spectators, I think that will potentially see, uh, has not at all been reached. There was no on track activity, no spectator activity, a fan activity, um, on the track today. Tomorrow will be the first full day of, uh, events. So that will be a better indicator, I think of what the attendance is going to be like. I know, you know, in the car, the administration is saying this

is going to be 140,000 people there. I don't know if that will be the case. I do know, I'll talk to some folks who said, you know, they, they gave out these tickets on a lottery system, and they were able to reserve 10 tickets just for themselves, um, or 10 tickets for, you know, between them

“and their friends. Um, so I think there is some skepticism on people who are even going that they”

will be that size of crowd there, but it's hard to say until, you know, there are people in the Grandstance. Um, as far as the actual, uh, viewing experience goes, uh, there are, it didn't seem like there's a lot of Grandstand opportunity. I think they'd, they're, the two big ones, one of them is a sweet, um, the President of Penske has alluded that Trump will be in one of those sweets if he comes, although they haven't confirmed whether or not he's actually going to watch

the race. Um, as for fans, I think they're going to be mostly stuck watching, uh, on big TV screens, sort of, in the mall area. It's kind of a wild concept. I mean, they're going to be showing up just it's a very hot out there would be an understatement. And the idea is that because there's really no viewing around Pennsylvania Avenue, based on the way that track is structured and independence have and how they've constructed this, there is a VIP area, whether or not Trump even uses it,

but that's going to be where the corporate sponsors are. There's quite a bit of corporate sponsors. I mean, we're, uh, you know, hearing that there's everybody from what Boeing and Starlink and Delta, and there's going to be, um, who Amazon and Gulf Stream, you know, it's, uh, it's a who's who have stocks that Donald Trump owns and a who's who people the US does business with, you know, and so it sounds like there's an area for the VIPs and then there's a very little

grandstand for fans and then there's an area in the sweltering heat. It's divine wonders and where you could watch on screens. What is happening around you and you'll just hear the noises? Uh, that's, I mean, to the rest of my understanding, I think that that's going to be, um, what the situation looks like. That said, if, you know, there are fewer than 140,000 people there, it might be easier for folks to get closer to the track. I don't know what that's going to look like yet.

Um, the sponsorship, I think, is interesting because, yeah, you know, I'm, uh, I'm a follower of Andy Carme aware of sort of the corporate sponsorships that exist around this series.

one of the retaining walls on the outside of the track, uh, a series of starlink branded, uh, branded

“barricades. That's never, that's something I not seen before. Um, definitely something unique to DC.”

I know that some, you know, some sponsors, uh, for racing beings are coming back for DC, uh, open AI being one. Um, so you're definitely seeing, you know, a, uh, a type of sponsor return to, uh, sponsoring this race that seems appropriate for, for Washington. Right. And, um, you know, if it comes to a company like a starlink or some of these other companies

here with data centers and some of these other companies here with military contracts,

mean, that money comes from a lot of taxpayers and has government contracts and goes from taxpayers to the government where, you know, we could be getting health care. We could be getting lots of things, but it's going to these government contracts. And now there seems to be kicking back in the form of sponsorships also to further, uh, you know, please, a guy who may or may not have paid air tomorrow in the VIP say anything hotter, strange or stood out to you that's worth mentioning before we go

back. I think just the political situation surrounding this race is something that's been discussed a

lot. Um, I think, you know, there's, there's a lot of discourse about whether or not this is merely, you know, an entertainment event to win the 250th anniversary. Uh, I think it's, I think it's difficult, um, to have that conversation without acknowledging the level of involvement with the administration's had obviously inputting this together, but also in promoting their own political agenda, um, in, in the promotion for this race. Uh, and I think as a diggers on, you know,

I'm gonna spend some time talking to people on the ground, uh, spectators that show up, uh,

“more and more indie car drivers, executives. I think it's going to be, uh, important and interesting”

to explore how, um, any car as an organization, uh, sets itself apart from the political agenda, because I think right now it's, you know, it's sort of indescapable that that conversation is going to be had. Yeah, and I think, um, you know, you hit on it, and, and I think that this is something we talk about a lot, which is, you know, indie car could be great. You enjoy watching it, you know, like people like watching UFC fights. It's great. People like watching a lot of different things.

All good. The question becomes what happens when it becomes an arm of government propaganda, seemingly, and also does it, uh, devalue a product that is existing outside of a propaganda arm. And, you know, doesn't make it a little more uncomfortable to watch a UFC fighter in indie car.

“After you have to see your racers, you know, bragging about, you know, whatever the Trump”

messages of the day while a lot of people are struggling out there, a lot of people you see are struggling in, in DC, you know, you look at the department stores, convenience stores, restaurants, lots of layoffs, and, you know, and then, and then you have this. And, you know, anyway, Ben, you'll be there all day, uh, today tomorrow the day after covering this. So if you've got, if you got photos, you can share videos, you can share, you know, um, we'd love to, you know,

whatever, whatever you can do, we'd, we'd love it. Certainly, all we locked in. All right, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7,000,000, it's Ben Weiss from Corehouse News. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.

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