Photo: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty
The president’s campaign manager couldn’t quite speed this one past keen internet sleuths.
AfterDonald Trump‘s visit to the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Brad Parscale, who is running his re-election campaign, tweeted a photo of theAir Force Oneplane in flight at theNASCARrace. With the bravado characteristic of his boss, Parscale wrote, “.@realDonaldTrump won the #Daytona500 before the race even started.”
Parscale soon deleted the tweet, replacing it withanother postwith a different image of Air Force One and a less-crowded set of bleachers. He used the same caption.
The photographer of the 2004 picture, Jonathan Ferrey, joked about the mishap,telling CNNthat he didn’t attend this year’s Daytona 500.
“I have a lot of talented colleagues photographing the Daytona 500 this year,” Ferrey said. “I am unfortunately not there today, but apparently I won the Daytona 500 photography before the race even started.”
During his drop-in at the Daytona 500, Trump, 73, took a few laps around the race track with the presidential motorcade as well as gave the starting command to the competing drivers.
“Daytona International Speedway, we love our country and it’s truly an honor to be with all of you at the great American race,” he said just before the green light, standing alongside First LadyMelania Trump. “Gentlemen, start your engines!”
The error in photo usage at the NASCAR appearance comes two weeks after the president made another since-deleted mistake related to another sporting event, theSuper Bowl.
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“Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game, and a fantastic comeback, under immense pressure,” he wrote at the time. “You represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well. Our Country is PROUD OF YOU!”
Trump promptlyreplaced the tweetwith one that properly referred to the Chiefs as being from “the Great State of Missouri.”
source: people.com
