{"id":77795,"date":"2026-08-23T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/donalds-big-day-out-at-washingtons-indycar-race-from-furious-flag-waving-to-dubious-weather-forecasting\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:55:29","slug":"donalds-big-day-out-at-washingtons-indycar-race-from-furious-flag-waving-to-dubious-weather-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/donalds-big-day-out-at-washingtons-indycar-race-from-furious-flag-waving-to-dubious-weather-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald\u2019s big day out at Washington\u2019s IndyCar race \u2013 from furious flag-waving to dubious weather forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president, pushing on with Freedom 250 festivities, makes over nation\u2019s capital for Trump rally on wheels<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/23\/kyle-kirkwood-freedom-250-indycar-trump\">Kyle Kirkwood wins Freedom 250 IndyCar race after Trump waves the green flag<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He got the wrong end of the stick. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2091574030411219155?s=20\">couldn\u2019t figure out<\/a> how to hold the green flag until his wife, Melania Trump, and Command Sgt Maj Matt Williams set him right. Then the US president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2091576915949707577?s=20\">waved the flag<\/a> fast and furious like an excited schoolboy. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/23\/kyle-kirkwood-freedom-250-indycar-trump\">race<\/a> was under way \u2013 and his conquest of Washington DC was complete.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to Washington, Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/21\/trump-lawsuit-threat-national-guard-deployment-report\">deployed<\/a> the national guard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/23\/donald-trump-reflecting-pool-metaphor\">wrecked<\/a> the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/25\/what-is-the-white-house-east-wing-and-why-has-it-been-torn-down-in-trumps-renovation-plans\">demolished<\/a> the East Wing of the White House and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/08\/trump-kennedy-center-washington-dc\">run<\/a> the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into the ground. His face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/19\/trump-banner-justice-department\">adorns<\/a> the Department of Justice, and he still has grand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/09\/trump-arch-washington-dc\">plans<\/a> for a triumphal arch worthy of a Roman emperor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/23\/donald-trump-indycar-race-dc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president, pushing on with Freedom 250 festivities, makes over nation\u2019s capital for Trump rally on wheels Kyle Kirkwood wins Freedom 250 IndyCar race after Trump waves the green flag He got the wrong end of the stick. Donald Trump couldn\u2019t figure out how to hold the green flag until his wife, Melania Trump, and &#8230; <a title=\"Donald\u2019s big day out at Washington\u2019s IndyCar race \u2013 from furious flag-waving to dubious weather forecasting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/donalds-big-day-out-at-washingtons-indycar-race-from-furious-flag-waving-to-dubious-weather-forecasting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald\u2019s big day out at Washington\u2019s IndyCar race \u2013 from furious flag-waving to dubious weather forecasting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}