Donald Trump was mocked online on Monday, 13 July, after a video posted by his aide Margo Martin showed the president receiving a custom IndyCar racing helmet at the White House during an event promoting the upcoming Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.
Trump hosted drivers and organisers of the new Freedom 250, an IndyCar race planned for 22–23 August on a street circuit in the US capital. The race is billed as part of America's semiquincentennial celebrations and is expected to send cars hurtling down Pennsylvania Avenue at more than 190 mph. Trump, flanked by IndyCar champions Alex Palou and Felix Rosenqvist, watched a pit stop demonstration and posed beside the machinery as staffers, including his loyal special assistant and communications adviser Martin, worked the angles for social media.
