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McLaren issues statement saying Liberty Media sent Donald Trump into their garage without consulting the team (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago by Microw@lemm.ee to c/formula1@lemmy.world
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As read by ORF on the broadcast right now, McLaren PR has reached out to media with a statement that they did not invite Donald Trump into their garage.

Trump came for an unannounced visit shortly before the start of the Miami GP.

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[–] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i'm sure you'd do that individually, but not in an official capacity. This comparison is very funny, F1 used to race in Sochi and Putin himself handed over the trophies. This only stopped when international sanctions were placed on Rusia. There are none on Trump so no, an F1 team cannot cause an international incident by itself. Stop pretending you don't understand this

[–] AAA@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Throwing out / denying access to a civilian is not "causing an international incident".

Just as their PR can write up a calm statement why he was allowed, they could have come up with a calm statement why he wasn't.

Sports was never and will never be not political. See your Putin example, or the last world cup, or the taking a knee protests,...

[–] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The fuck you mean sports isn't political? So I guess saying the national anthem while having jets flying above isn't political....

The Olympics deciding who can and can't compete based on what their countries government is doing isn't political..

[–] AAA@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Maybe you read that sentence again:

Sports was never and will never be not political.