President Trump’s gargantuan Cadillac limo, aka the “Beast,” got some track time ahead of the Daytona 500 on February 16th, 2025. While this was not the president’s first time at The Great American Race – he also made an appearance in 2020 – it was his first time leading the field when his motorcade took a few laps around the 2.5-mile superspeedway.
Air Force One touched down at the local Daytona Beach airport behind the backstretch well before the green flag fell, giving the sitting president plenty of time to make his way to the racetrack to take part in pre-race ceremonies. His Cadillac limo motorcade delivered him to Pit Road, where he greeted attendees with his granddaughter by his side. He then took his seat inside the Beast and headed out for a few parade laps.
The Beast had to stick to the apron below the actual racing surface, though. With 31-degree banking in the turns and 18 degrees on the front stretch, keeping all four wheels in solid contact with flat asphalt was probably the better option for Trump’s Cadillac limo.
As a reminder, while the Beast is adorned with the iconic five-point Cadillac crest, under the skin, it’s essentially a medium duty truck. It rides on the same chassis used on the now-discontinued Chevy Kodiak and GMC TopKick. That makes it more than capable of hauling all that heavy armor and bulletproof glass around without breaking a sweat, even with a pack of 41 snarling V8-powered race cars hot on its heels.
Trump is the second sitting president to attend the Daytona 500, following George W. Bush, who dropped in on The Great American Race in 2004, which was won by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
As for the 2025 Daytona 500, William Byron, driver of the No. 24 NASCAR Chevy, slipped by a dramatic last-lap wreck and fended off a hard-charging Tyler Reddick to sweep the Cup Series’ opening race two years in a row.
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Why are we celebrating a known fascist in America? Genuinely asking 😐
Give.It.Up.Get.Over.It.
Oh this article is going to trigger the weak minded. I’m sure the comments will be filled with the words “racist”, “fascist”, “bigot”, “Nazi”, “rapist” ect ect.
YES! And all of those”words” are absolutely appropriate.
Keri,
We are the weak minded that didn’t vote for that morally bankrupt narcissistic pathological liar.
It’s too bad grown people have to use this site for their hate. Well Mr. Perfect, i’ve got to admit, at least you we’re clean about it. Just go use another site for you’re political BS! Get over it. It’s very old and worn out already.
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USA 1, why not ? The words you listed our true description of trump.
“The words listed our true description of trump”. – Ivan. Thanks for proving my point. All you Trump haters, should go to Ukraine and stop Putin. Live stream it as well. I will enjoy the content.
USA 1, Putin is Trump’s buddy. Trump aspires to be an autocrat – dictator just like Putin.
Putin plays Trump like a Stradivarius.
Ever since the fall is Soviet Union Trump has wanted nothing more than having Trump Tower Moscow. Putin and the Russian oligarchs think Trump is a buffoon, as does the rest of the world.
An autocracy looks like a party deciding to shoe in a candidate when the incumbent steps down without the vote of the people (even if its a primary election).
An autocracy looks like comments sections getting censored or outright removed on left leaning news sites preventing readers from voicing their opinions.
An autocracy looks like forcing lockdowns upon people who have to feed their families and forcing businesses that have been around for decades to close for good.
An autocracy looks like passing a tax hike masked as “congestion pricing” to force people to continue funding a money pit of a transit organization enabled to continue as a wasteful money pit by the same party while the people are struggling to pay their rent.
An autocracy looks like Trudeau using the Emergencies Act to quell a protest of truckers, who are the backbone to the Canadian and American economy.
Please. I mean it when the I say the left has truly become the party of hypocrisy.
USA 1, we might as well. Trump’s too stupid to stop him. You give Putin an inch he’ll take a mile. If Trump keeps weakening NATO Putin will have all of Europe.
USA 1, I will tell you the same thing I told “Uncle Al”, when he told me to go back to where I came from. Ivan is my screen name, are you really that stupid to think that is my real name.
Thanks again for the invite to express my negative opinion about Trump. It has become a bigger national pastime than baseball.
Ivan – it’s people like you that makes me pro choice. If only your mom was as well.
The weak minded would be the people who voted for the orange cult leader give it a year you will see.
Truth,
That’s not going to happen.
His supporters won’t admit that his first failed presidency was nothing but lies.
They spent 4 years whining about how the election was stolen, just another Trump lie.
Twice impeached, convicted of 34 felonies in New York. His great big tax overhaul benefited only the 1% of the richest Americans, Trump’s Buddies. The middle class got nothing.
Trump is a P.T. Barnum, grifter, con artist.
If Trump supporters couldn’t see that he is a morally bankrupt narcissistic pathological liar. A coward and draft dodger.
They never will.
You forgot jackass, perpetual liar, and duffuss….needs to go to Mars with his buddies .
Those Duramax limos needs some tunes.
And tunes not piped in through the speakers like the “other” crowd of trendy vehicles they are trying to force on us.
Glad that Trump criticizes excessive government spending while simultaneously spending millions of tax dollars on attending sporting events and firing thousands of federal employees to save government funds. What a POS
Because the governor of California taking a trip to Ch!n@ in order to brown nose to BYD yapping about how “I would own two” is a better way of spending his constituents tax dollars when A) Its not his job to be an international diplomat when he should be worried about the fire hazards and homelessness of his own state, B) He should be brown nosing to Elon Musk, RJ Scaringe, and Peter Rawlinson, all EV manufacturers based and manufacturing in his home state and NOT to a company run by a party member who sees us as their nemesis.
How much did Brandon spend every weekend in Delaware.Really!!He is a people’s president and the fans loved it!Get a life 🤬
Yes he is wasting millions of dollars by doing this! But he’s multitasking like no one else can! Greeting his subjects, grabbing all kinds of p ussies, taking a few laps and making a quick exit to the nearest McDonald’s! He’s very overweight with alot of belly fat but I bet he orders thru the McDonald’s app so he gets FREE fries and a McP ussy with each order !
Trump is a deranged circus monkey and musklania is his handler.
Do you think it’s time for Elonia and Donnie to come out of the closet.
Thumb up if they should come out. Thumb down if they should stay in the closet.
The dead giveaway of where he stands was and is the love of all the Village People soundtracks at his rallies, which became a Trump anthem.
Lets not forget the “pleasuring-of-two-guys” dance move and reminiscing that great moment when he saw that golfer Arnold Palmer’s ding-dong.
Ken Copeland, Maybe Trump doesn’t want to be a dictator, but a dictaster.
I cannot stand Trump. But one thing has been made very clear to me: the other political party comes up with one or two sayings and their sheep follow them right off the cliff.
Kind of like “JD Vance is weird” It’s all you heard for like a month. They didn’t consider a demented old man sniffing children weird though….go figure.
No, but they figured a sitting President accused of rape, including a 13 year old child despicable. No wonder he has such a following in the South.
jeffhoutx84,
I am being completely serious.
JD Vance wears a lot of eye makeup.
On a man, I find that weird.
How much do you think it cost to fly airforce 1 and trump there and back to Washington. Also had to fly the beast limo down and back in a airforce transport plane. That’s a lot of jet A.
Actually it was an easy trip. He had been in Florida all week and they just dropped in at an airport next to the track and most of the security was already in place as not just anyone gets on pit road.
They were already just going back to DC anyways and just dropped in.
It was much cheaper than flying Biden to Jersey then getting him to the beach.
It was nice people could see a president and not have to pay $5000 a plate to see him.
2M6, Trump doesn’t need to have a $5,000 a plate campaign fundraiser, when Musklania gave him 320 million dollars.
I wonder if the four nations USA hockey team lost on purpose, so they didn’t have to go to the White House and meet Trump for a bagged McDonald’s lunch. Trump has no shame.
As long as you’re good with paying for his trip, I guess it’s not a problem then.
If they were on an Electric Airplane, they would have had to stop mid-air to recharge and would have missed the race.
Richard C, Trump might suggest they get a
long extension cord.
Trump suggested, you can cure covid-19 by drinking bleach, or shining a bright light down your throat, or taking Ivermectin, a livestock dewormer. Note, one of Trump’s Rich Buddies owned the pharmaceutical company that manufactured Ivermectin.
Out of all these ideas, the extension cord might be the sanest one of them all.
I suppose he will have to run it by President Elon first.
I missed a few.
Cowardly draft dodger that has the gall to mock and disparage our troops.
Thanks for the good time you made my night.
Ivan.
[gif of Michael Jackson eating popcorn at the movie theater…]
Ivan, Jay and a few other “lib-tards” have Trump Derangement Syndrome don’t they!!! I just sit back, eat some popcorn, and watch these dudes heads explode with the amount of rent Trump is taking up in their heads!
Yes TNT, it’s quite entertaining! They are getting a taste of how the other side felt under Biden, and the VP who never received a vote in the primary but ran for President.
@ Gary
It’s funny also, when they say Trump has dementia, yet shows no signs of it, but their president showed all the signs and also said on live t.v. “Let’s Go Brandon” degrading himself!! Hypocrites!!
Trump called his Homeland Security Secretary the “Governor of South Dakota.” Dementia Don doesn’t even know his own unqualified Cabinet.
Ddawg75, Trump supporters are just too blind to see it. They don’t want to see it, and they don’t want to admit it.
Ddawg75, Dementia Don, I like that. I might steal that from you.
You should trademark that, and have some hats made ( Dementia Don 45 & 47 ) get one before you forget !
TNTSIERRA, Trump is a deranged circus monkey and Musklania is his handler.
I have TDCMS.
Trump deranged circus monkey syndrome.
I guess the election outcome hasn’t sunk into these liberals with Trump derangement syndrome.The country is alive again,enjoy our beautiful country again!
What stopped you to enjoy our beautiful country before?
You have to get it through your head at one point in time. There are no Democrats / Liberals or Republicans under this administration. It’s just the King and his servants. Wait for another year or two and all the old farts commenting here will be more worried about pulling their Social Security checks from Elon’s grip than the Chevy Malibu being discontinued.
Trump has uncovered mind blowing corruption and whrn we get our $5k from the government of Our hard earned tax money. I EXPECT you, Ivan, Jay, and the rest of the mental asylies to give it up to some BLM or transgender charity!!! Ya, I doubt you will. You’ll have your hand out begging for the money. Hypocrites!
Again foaming at the mouth and calling names for people who have other opinions.
Trying to emulate your idol? Not even close.
As for the “mind blowing corruption”, nobody was brought to justice yet, just false claims and lies.
@Belo
Do you listen to yourself! This is why so many conservatives are sick of liberals, because you are all hypocrites!! The people have spoke. We had 4 years of sick mental patients trying to ruin our country.
Finally we have stability! I can’t wait till next week when the Epstein list is revealed and your little lib-tard heads explode!!! Can’t wait!!!! Going to be epic seeing how much of YOUR party is SICK/disgusting
#MMAGA
Make Mental Asylums Great Again
TNTSIERRA,
$5,000 you will never see it.
Trump’s first presidency, he promised the middle class a sweeping tax overhaul.
All of the tax breaks went to the 1% of the richest Americans, Trump’s Buddies.
The middle class got nothing.
Don’t plan on that money, because you’re never going to see it.
TNTISERRA,
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were best friends they hung out and went partying together. Trump threw him under the bus.
If anyone should be afraid of what Jeffrey Epstein has to say, it’s Donald Trump.
You can’t prosecute a sitting president. Trump’s followers only believe what he tells them to believe, so it’s a moot point.
TNTSIERRA,
Elon Musk has a transgender daughter.
She said he harassed her about it.
He has now abandoned her and has nothing to do with her.
When Elon is asked about her he states, “she is dead.”
Elon Musk is a disgusting man.
He has no compassion sympathy or empathy for anyone, and apparently you do not either.
@John Z
I have compassion, just not for sick people Who push surgeries down teenagers throats. Your a sick man if you think a young child really knows who they are at age 11. The human brain isn’t fully developed until 25 years old. You are the deranged one and support this nonsense.
BTW, if Trump went to the island, the DemocRATS would have already released the list. He isn’t and it drives you sick “knuckleheads” crazy.
#MakeMentalAsylumsGreatAgain.
Belo, Do you really think it will take that long for Musk and Trump to fleece the social security system, and Medicare. Musk the world’s richest man, gets billions from the federal government. You can look this up, it’s public knowledge. Musk hasn’t cut a dime out of the billions that he’s raking in from the federal government. Watchdog on wasteful federal government spending, that’s a joke. He’s the fox guarding the chicken coop.
Elon Musk was recently dancing around on a stage with a chainsaw smiling, laughing, and mocking, as he causes harm to our federal employees. You could plainly see he was in euphoric jubilation.
Elon Musk has a high IQ, but he is also sick in the mind.
@John Z
I think that there are more than ever sick people in the mind in America today.. Blame the mass media taking advantage of that weakness. Half of the people are celebrating the victory over the other half, not realizing that they will all going to suffer. “Divide and conquer” is as valid today as it was back in the Roman Empire time.
There are many examples throughout the recent history when the executive power killed the legislative and the justice independence. And then a Dictator emerges.
Belo,
Our enemies spend billions of dollars a year trying to divide us and destabilize our government. Donald Trump is doing it by himself for free, and they’re loving it.
An Air Force One flyover would’ve been “cool” don’t think that’s been done before
Jack,
Yes it has, kind of. At Daytona. There is an airport just beyond the back stretch of the Raceway. You could see Air Force One coming in for landing. This was approximately 30 years ago. I’m sure you could find videos and photos on YouTube.
This is the exactly what Kim Jung Un would be doing if NASCAR was over in North Korea.
Lardass could have sat on the right side of the Beast to counter any degree of bank without any worries of the wheels coming off the ground.
I sometimes look at a very limited photo album of my father going off to war at 19 years old early in 1942.
Off to fight against the fascists and the dictators that thought it was okay to forcibly take over a sovereign Nations land because they wanted the land and or its natural resources.
The tragic cost for the USA was over 400,000 boys, men, and women killed. In a war that lasted from December 1941 through September 1945.
They created NATO in hopes that this would prevent this from ever happening again in Europe. Putin is just like Joseph Stalin.
For those of you that are not up on your history, Joseph Stalin would make Adolf Hitler look like a Boy Scout.
Young people today just don’t get it. I don’t think most of them could tell you what NATO stands for let alone what it does. Sad.
To add on to John Z’s comments, Trumps love of Putin makes me sick to my stomach. I am a Vietnam vet via the draft (the only lottery I ever won) and the bullets, artillery shells, the MIGs in the air were all supplied by Russia and their proxies to the North Vietnam troops.
I personally never felt that we should have been in Vietnam as historically Vietnam and China have always been enemies. It’s good to see the U.S. now restoring relationships with Vietnam but let’s see if Trump screws this up and sides with China.
As for our presidential choices in the last election – Biden/Harris vs. Trump, we all lost. I can’t believe that our Democratic and Republicans parties couldn’t come up with anybody better to run for president.
Matt loves Porsche,
Remember when we used to vote for the candidate we like the best.
Now we vote for the candidate we dislike the least. Sad.
Well look What was running against President Trump…..nobody intelligent.
The demo-rats screwed us and some like it ..Trump won get over it we had to put up with the corruption from the last for years ,put your big girl panties on and shut up .. NO MORE POLITICS ON THIS SITE
tomg,
No one is forcing you to read any of these posts. If you don’t like them don’t read them.
@tomg
They don’t get it, because they are sick! Look at their entire party. Old, sick, senile, ped@phile, corrupted politicians.
TNTSIERRA,
You should stop reading between the lines.
The only thing I stated was Elon Musk is a disgusting man for abandoning his transgender daughter, and when asked about her, he States “she’s dead”. You made these irrational assumptions on my stance on the issue.
I will let you know where I stand on the issue of LGBTQ. People.
That’s right people, human beings.
Someone’s son, someone’s daughter, mother or father. They should be treated the same as everyone.
First, I will never watch a Daytona event. Second, I would be very curious to know what Putin has in his sleeves to be able to MANIPULATE Trumpy-Trump like a PUPPET.(Tromper in French means LYE and Trompeur means LYER) The reality is very-very closed(actually true) from these translations. Also BEWARE BECAUSE TRUMP IS SO CRAZY THAT HE MIGHT PUSH THE RED BUTTON TO PROVE HE IS RIGHT WHEN, IN REALITY, HE IS WRONG
At least the V-8 and sound are real in the limo unlike the “budlite” pace car.