Trump administration pushing for IndyCar race on National Mall for America250

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The Department of Transportation is making a propulsion to clasp an IndyCar contention connected the National Mall arsenic portion of the America250 celebration, FOX Business confirmed Friday.

In conjunction with the push, President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social an AI-generated video promoting the race. The video featured fans astir the National Mall and drivers speeding done a Washington, D.C., raceway.

"The Grand Prix is an unprecedented accidental to observe our nation’s arrogant racing pedigree, showcase the quality of the National Mall, and make millions successful captious tourism gross for the Capital," a Department of Transportation spokesperson said.

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A wide presumption of the pits during the INDYCAR Open Testing astatine Indianapolis Motor Speedway connected April 23, 2025 successful Indianapolis, Indiana. (Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

"The Trump Administration is determined to marque D.C. large again, and this contention is different illustration of that commitment. We’ll support moving with our partners successful Congress to outline the affirmative impacts it volition person connected the District and close the record."

Organizers are aiming for the lawsuit to instrumentality spot connected Aug. 21. IndyCar usually runs connected Sundays, but determination is nary lawsuit slated for the Sunday aft the Aug. 16 Ontario Honda Dealers Indy astatine Markham. The adjacent contention scheduled is the Snap-On Milwaukee, a two-day lawsuit connected Aug. 29 and 30, a Saturday and Sunday. Aug. 21 is simply a Friday.

Neither the White House nor IndyCar instantly responded to an email asking whether the contention has been confirmed to instrumentality place.

The lawsuit does person a roadblock up of it, though, arsenic advertizing connected Capitol grounds is forbidden. It is not wide precisely wherever the way would be, but the video Trump posted featured the Capitol, Washington Monument, and Lincoln Memorial.

Indycar operator Pato O'Ward (5) drives crossed the decorativeness enactment during the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy astatine Streets of Toronto. (Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images)

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Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer person been notified of the plans, Punchbowl News reported.

If the all-clear were given, it would beryllium the 2nd large sporting lawsuit held successful the nation’s superior arsenic portion of America250, on with a UFC lawsuit slated for June 14, Trump’s 80th birthday, astatine the White House.

UFC CEO and President Dana White brushed disconnected concerns that a planned White House combat paper marking America’s 250th day would beryllium "too political," saying that "just astir everybody connected the roster" wants to compete.

In an interrogation with Bloomberg’s Romaine Bostick connected Friday, White was asked if helium thought it would beryllium a situation to get fighters to enactment successful the UFC lawsuit scheduled for June retired of fearfulness that it would beryllium "too political" oregon person "too galore governmental overtones," a conception successful which helium changeable down.

"I mean, I don’t cognize however it would beryllium excessively governmental different than it’s astatine the White House," helium responded with a laugh. "Listen, if you look backmost passim history, I deliberation [former President] George Bush was a large shot fan, [former President Barack] Obama was an NBA instrumentality and Trump is simply a UFC fan. I don’t deliberation that immoderate of those guys being fans made immoderate athletics excessively political."