NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace stands during the national anthem before a NASCAR auto race Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace stands during the national anthem before a NASCAR auto race Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.
The comments — in a tweet about NASCAR and driver Bubba Wallace — were the latest in a series of inflammatory statements Trump has made that seem aimed at stoking his base, even as his hovered at their lowest level amid racial tensions over George Floyd's death and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!" the president tweeted Monday morning.
The following day, in a show of solidarity with Wallace, NASCAR drivers and teams pushed his No. 43 car down pit road at the speedway.However, FBI investigators later announced that the noose had been hanging in the garage since the last big race at the speedway in October, well before it was assigned to Wallace, and that the incident did not constitute a hate crime.
Wallace, who has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter protest movement and had called for banning the Confederate flag from NASCAR events, has
Good he should apologize.
It was a garage door pull? Don't you get the news ? DefundNPR
Really? Trump? You have a country to run and a pandemic to stop. Grow up and focus already.
I stopped listen(ng to your station in 2016. It was so obvious the radio personnel were leaning toward trump. You are part of the problem(s)- all of you!
Honestly you are so part of the problem. ARe you worried funding is going to be cut short?
How many of his Hoaxes is he going to apologize for?
Yet people will still vote for him in November. Idiots. Firetrump
Fake news lies
It’s basic stuff until the last 2 paragraphs. Worthy of concern.
trump has 1 hugh advantage the dnc preach castro sh=t better than triple sh=t
Ignore tRump BubbaWallace! He’s a liar and a racist. We’re on your side. Vote 🌊🌊🌊 in November. JoeBiden CaptMarkKelly
I do agree he exaggerated a bit, but I blame it more on media like CNN for being the first to print it even before a damn investigation was ever started.
Hey Trump, want you apologize to the american people on the 10000 lies you’ve told!
So in conclusion, the only Americans left who support Trump are the NASCAR fans that oppose banning the Dukes of Hazzard flag (which is not all NASCAR fans).
Ignore it and go on
Biased NPR again bends the truth. POTUS did not 'call for' or ask for an apology. He only asked IF he had apologized for disrupting the event over false pretense.
Ok I get it now, Trump was actually running for imperial wizard and somehow he got elected to be president a d he still confused
well just consider the source if Trumpester Don says it, no sense going any further, cause you know it is a lie or his attempt to discredit the turth. GOP should be trying to safe the party by removing realDonaldTrump from office.
Bubba ignore the neanderthal potus. He can't help it dementia is progressing obviously
More distraction from Russia debacle! Leave Bubba alone.
A noose has thirteen wraps around the body of the rope
But the pictures clearly showed a noose in the garage. If trump didnt see that then he can go soak his head.
If this doesn't show his racism, what will it take? He's only after his base, and that's it!!
gut this fish Send a message to repressive and elitists leaders by charging Trump with CrimesAgainstHumanity
Just call it racist NPR
Agree
🙏🏼Lumpy Lump Trumps days are ’d then we can LockHimUp for making a Shit Show of our 🇺🇸🇺🇸 & we can get back to being an admired World Leading Nation again!🇺🇸
This is our PRESIDENT? What country are we living in? Absolutely RIDICULOUS. SHAME.
I never thought I could hate realDonaldTrump any more....I was wrong.
If I were a friend of Bubba I would advise him to get the heck out of NASCAR racing. Why is he racing in the most back woods, racist, moonshine running circuit in the world? Formula One racing is a better option.
Why are you reporting on this? It wasn’t a hoax, that implies the absence of an event; there was a noose in Wallace’s stall. It’s origination was the point of confusion. Don’t give Trump’s divisive lies a platform.
He did not attack NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag. You just have to put that with the Bubba Wallace thing to make what Bubba Wallace thing seem less 'Smollett-y'. So dumb.
Yep...Trump is correct
You people just keep on lying
So will NASCAR and Bubba Wallace apologize for the hoax or won't they?
❤️❤️❤️
Yes, yes Trumps an idiot. We know. Can we please have election already.
NASCAR didn't ban the confederate flag, they wave it before the final lap
The hoax is desecrating the WH.
Well, it was a hoax. It’s verifiable.
He didn't attack NASCAR, he stated a fact. Ever since they decided to ban that flag their rating has gone down.
Stop it.
And again, he never reported it himself, it was reported to him.
Bubba Walace is simple provocator, and he did it just for make his own commercial. Shame
Trump should apologize for demanding an apology!
At a minimum he should pay for the cost of the investigation.
Jussie
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
130,000 DEAD Americans fron Covid-19 and this is what our President is fixating on?!? His new campaign slogan reflects its objective “Make America Hate Again!”; long live the confederacy!!!
Trump is fueling the fire that he started back up again and this civil unrest is getting worse everyday. We cannot have four more years of this!
Trump is an ignorant fool with bad ratings
Trumps wealth is a hoax!
Let’s call on Trump to apologize for being the worst president in history.
BubbaSmollett
And his tweets are appalling. Not one thing about the death of an 8 year old. He’s such a despicable human!
Bubba should tell Trump to get deez nuts 😂
Ooohhh, bad orange man again. Can you for once be unbiased? You should be stripped from taxpayer $. Seriously, this is bot proper journalism but Democrats marketing channel.
Because he’s a racist, period.
ShireenQudosi Good
The stupidity. Like most racists, any intelligence and common sense he may have bows down to and is diminished by a deep sense of being less than those he hates. Why focus on Bubba when he should be confronting Putin and asking for that apology?
it was a hoax. they put that noose up after the fact. they got caught and are trying to prevent it from become a Jesse Smollett shit show
Over 130,000 Americans are dead from the coronavirus. Still no answer from the US government on Russia's bounty program that are killing out soldiers. What does Trump do? Pick a fight with yet another black man to appeal to his racist base. Deplorable. TRE45ON
Every time you think trump has gone the lowest he can go....
Way to perpetuate Trump's lie, NPR. Bubba didn't have anything with reporting that issue, but you'd never know from your tweet or headline. End the stenography!
Bubba is being targeted by racists. KKK uniforms were found draped over the bed in his hotel room.
First the BunkerBoy needs to apologize for all he has done in last 3 1/2 years that has caused thousands of people to die. Shame on all Republicans who are still backing this murderous president.
If he attacks you then guarantee that you are on the correct side. You have done the right thing.
Boy oh boy. Did you ever interpret that with a slant.
Quality guy, that President. Forward Thinker, Man of Science, People Person.
The dems use blacks like rags. When will they wake up?
The only “hoax” in this story is realDonaldTrump trying to impersonate being a president.
He did see it was tied like a noose, right? The rope may have been there for years, but somebody then went to the trouble to tie it into a literal noose. That's just weird and creepy, and I don't blame Bubba's team for bein freaked out by it.
Very low comprehension or willfully lying. He is saying that Bubba needs to be very clear that the garage door rope pull was NOT intended for him. It had been there, and in use, since 2019. Anything short of such an admission is race-baiting and hate.
He pulled a Jussie. It backfired and he shook man up but keeps making excuses/lies for it when proven he was full of shit.
It will only get worse!
Trump, don’t you have anything better to do than spread hate? I can’t wait to see you humiliated in November. We all hate you
Trump can seem help himself when he attack black folks. Next he'll attack MLK claiming he was never in Selma.
President Trump didn't 'call on' Bubba Wallace. He slandered him.
Is it just possible to not report everything he says? I cannot remember so much consistent negativity.
We live in a bizarre world where our president is literally creating a cultural war and he’s demanding a black man to apologize when he literally has no reason to.
It wasn’t a noose, it was a pull chord put there in 2019. Bubba freaked out and created an International click bait that all the MSM freaked out about.
Asking someone to apologize is attacking....what do you call what CNN does to the truth on a daily basis?
*45 should apologize for having been born
What a foolish move! Who will he pick on next?
Omg. Doesn’t he have President things to do?
It was a hoax
He gives us more and more reasons to loathe him everyday.
TrumpIsARacist TRE45ON TreasonWeasel NotMyPresident
In other news realDonaldTrump is a racist.
I am done with NPR.
Make the Black guy apologize for something he didn't do. That's white supremacy right there.
Trump you first. Apologize to the hundred and twenty thousand people who didn't have to die.
Just when realDonaldTrump couldn’t get any dumber he attacks a private business for removing the anti-American flag and then attacked the black driver. What a tool!! A real leader would be trying to unite but not the emperor.
Stand with BubbaWallace
Bubba Wallace is white
It was always a garage door pull....
imwithBubba BubbaWallace has nothing to apologize for! He helped encourage a sport to be more inclusive and remove symbols of hate! He has shown true leadership and is an inspiration to all of his fans!
Donny forgot to take his vitamins again this morning — for the 1,460th day in a row
if we put a noose in trumps garage, he'd probably think it's giant Noodle O from Sean Hannity
Bullshit headline. Do better!
Again and again, outrageous!
Why don't he attack the Russians for putting bounties on US service person's heads! Sleazy coward!
Put your big boy pants on Bubba, and stop crying about it.
Apologize for what? The man didn’t do anything and the rope was tied to be a noose.
involving a rope fashioned into a noose So, not a noose? Forced hoax is forced.
So what is this supposed to distract us from? COVID deaths. Health care systems becoming overwhelmed. Increasing national debt & deficit. And/or ❓
what the hell
White House needs a good old fashioned Beer Summit out in the shade of the Rose Garden portico like Obama did what seems like 10,000 years ago. Oh... I forgot, Trump doesn’t imbibe. I have a problem with self absorbed abstainers. They never try “The 1st Step” 🤔
Donald Trump is a racist
POTUS expecting anyone else to apologize for anything is true cosmic irony.
The FBI opened the investigation, if anyone should apologize, it should be them. Trump is a racist. He doesn’t hide it at all, so anyone who denies it is either stupid or also a racist.
NPR: 'Local black fisherman finds fishing line fashioned into a noose.'
Fuck no
And is Colin Kaepernick going to Throw touch downs anymore?
Yes, forget the Virus 🦠 NASCAR matters the most!
So...if we were to take the comments by Trump and the comments by Bubba Wallace, who was lying here? DefundNPR
Well it wasn’t real so it was a fake story or a hoax so . . . Even the FBI agreed.
So disgusting. Bubba did not find the noose, make the claim and quickly accepted the FBI investigation results. He does not owe anyone an apology. RacistInChief
'trump Continues Racist Attacks Without Consequence'
Worst “president” EVER 🤮
It was not 'a rope fashioned into a noose.' It was not any kind of noose at all.
Will it never end!! God help us please!
This is a horribly written everything.
IF YOU KEEP REPEATING THIS FAKE NEWS YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE ALL CREDITABLY. JUST STOP PRINTING ANY SENTENCE THAT BEGINS WITH THE WORD 45
WHITE LIVES ARE BETTER.... at being racist
TrumpIsAnIdiot
If he was a halfway decent Pres. he’d invite BubbaWallace to the White House to discuss racial tensions in sports in America. Make a photo op out of it. 45 loves him a good photo-op. Bubba would wisely decline though. So we’re stuck with a racist calling him out for no reason.
Bubba Smollett did create a hoax crime and it didn't help his driving. He is still a 4 year loser. The only way he will win is if NASCAR dictates the other drivers have to let him win.
'Bubba didn't report it, though' Oh, he only heavily perpetuated it by participating in the asinine parade and did various interviews about the hoax hate crime.
An “accidental“ pre-existing condition in the form of a NOOSE? What makes that any ‘better?’
If I was BubbaWallace I would sue the Alt-Right racist president for the cost of 24 hour security he now needs plus pain and suffering.
How about trump apologizes for botching this pandemic)
He didn’t attack NASCAR for banning the confederate flag, he simply made an observation about their ratings. This guys loves talking about ratings.
Trump needs to go. VoteBlueToSaveAmerica2020
Someone needs to let trump know the south won't rise again. TrumpVirus is killing Americans and his top priority is to lie about it and defend confederate history?
It was a hoax.....so theres that....
quit pretending he's a president
Trump should be silenced until he condemns Putin and places sanctions on Russia for their attacks on the military. silencetrump
And he should
THE MEDIA ATTACKED AMERICA WITH A LIE. AFTER IT WAS PROVEN THAT THE GARAGE DOOR PULL ROPE HAD BEEN THERE SINCE 2019 AND IT WASN'T A NOOSE, THEY KEPT CALLING IT A NOOSE. There's no better example or definition of the word hoax.
I thought this horse died when Mr. Wallace clearly took the embrassement.
Great job on the headline. Good stuff good stuff.
realDonaldTrump is just desperate to change the conversation to distract and from his failures with incendiary racial foment.
I hate trump so much
NPR, this header needs more context for folks not familiar with NASCAR or the incident.
This tweet makes it sound like Trump wasn’t lying to smear him and since a majority of people don’t read past the headline...
Apologize for what? He wasn’t even involved. Trump is an idiot.
Well, first off, the removal of the traitor flag and the noose were two separate incidents. Also, no one should apologize to Donald Trump. For anything.
DumbAsATrump
Trump enjoys being racist
This is a terrible headline NPR. Bubba had nothing to do with reporting the noose and your headline ignores Trump's racism
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