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Trump rips NASCAR for banning Confederate flag and targets Black driver Bubba Wallace - CNBC

Trump rips NASCAR for banning Confederate flag and targets Black driver Bubba Wallace - CNBC

Trump rips NASCAR for banning Confederate flag and targets Black driver Bubba Wallace - CNBC
Jul 06, 2020 1 min, 25 secs

President Donald Trump lashed out Monday at the NASCAR Cup series' only Black driver and ripped its ban on the Confederate battle flag.

"That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!" the president added in a reference to NASCAR's move last month to prohibit displaying the Confederate battle flag.

Wallace, the only Black full-time driver on the NASCAR Cup circuit, has been an outspoken critic of the Confederate flag and has called on the racing organization to "get them out of" events. "No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race," Wallace said last month.

Days later, NASCAR announced that "The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.".

The White House declined CNBC's request for comment on the president's tweet about the Confederate flag.

But White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a Fox News interview Monday morning that Trump's tweet was intended to make "a broader point that this rush to judgment on the facts before the facts are out is not acceptable.".

In a press briefing later Monday, McEnany said that Trump's tweet "was not making a judgment one way or the other" on the Confederate flag.

Later that month, NASCAR announced that a noose had been found in Wallace's garage stall at a race in Talladega, Alabama, and that it had launched an investigation.

Mississippi's Republican governor last week signed into law the decision to change the state's flag, which included the Confederate battle flag

The design included the Confederate battle flag

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