Trump’s Summer of Fun Ends With an IndyCar Race on the Streets of D.C.
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It was the final, major event planned for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The president took a lap.
Listen · 3:44 min Share full article The Freedom 250 Grand Prix took place on Sunday on a 1.7-mile track made up of streets around the National Mall. Credit... Alex Kent/The New York Times By Shawn McCreesh
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum shouted, “Gentlemen, start your engines!” Mr. Trump waved a large green flag up and down while his wife smiled and clapped. The Qatari jumbo jet that he now uses as Air Force One flew low overhead.
Twenty-five racecars screamed around a 1.7-mile track that wended between white marble monuments and Smithsonian museums along Pennsylvania Avenue, cut across the National Mall and passed before the Capitol.
The city’s downtown was transformed for this. More than 200 manhole covers were welded shut. Flights into Ronald Reagan National Airport were redirected. Museums along the course put protective measures in place around their artworks.
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