In the first month of his second term, President Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders, called for mass layoffs of government employees and threatened allies with tariffs as his administration has dramatically been remaking both domestic and foreign policy. And, on the weekends, he has still found time for sports.
Last weekend, Mr. Trump played some golf with Tiger Woods and became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl. This Sunday, according to some news reports, he may be at the Daytona 500. Mr. Trump attended the race in 2020 with the first lady, Melania Trump, and served as its grand marshal, shortly before the nation shut down for the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr. Trump is spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Fla., about 200 miles south of the Daytona International Speedway. The White House has not confirmed his attendance, but the Federal Aviation Administration issued “temporary flight restrictions for V.I.P. movement” for the area for part of Sunday. This year’s race already has a grand marshal, though: Anthony Mackie, the star of the film “Captain America: Brave New World.”
Mr. Trump’s appearance at Daytona on Sunday would cap a whirlwind week of mixing sports with politics. Last Sunday morning, the president played a few holes with the Hall of Fame golfer Tiger Woods in Florida, as they’ve been working on a merger between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit. In the afternoon, on Air Force One, he signed a proclamation making it “Gulf of America Day,” reinforcing his Jan. 20 executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico. And then, before attending the Super Bowl in New Orleans in the evening, he met with families of the victims of the New Year’s Day terror attack in the city.
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