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.
McLaren PR put out some BS about ‘respecting the office’. That cunt didn’t respect his own office, nor those he swore to serve. He has publicly said and done undeniably reprehensible things. I’m fucking sick of the type of people who feel they’re too polite to be political and then are ‘dismayed’ by the direction society is headed in.
Zak, if you wanna degrade yourself, do it away from one of Britain’s most venerated sporting institutions, for fuck’s sake.
I’m fucking sick of the type of people who feel they’re too polite to be political
In this case you’re talking about an international sports event and the team is not american. Why do you expect them to take a strong stand against a former US president?
Not being American doesn’t mean you have to be passive about Trump.
I’m not Russian but I still fucking hate Putin and would be happy to take a stand against him.
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
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,…
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…
Maybe you read that sentence again:
Sports was never and will never be not political.
