White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said President Donald Trump did not have an opinion about the Confederate flag.
McEnany dismissed reporters’ questions about a Trump tweet, in which the president said without evidence that NASCAR’s decision to ban Confederate flag resulted in the “lowest ratings ever.” Meanwhile, Fox Sports executive Michael Mulvihill has tweeted that NASCAR viewership has actually increased to 8% since its return from coronavirus break on May 17.
When repeatedly asked to elaborate on Trump’s tweet, McEnany did not address the question directly, moving on to talk about the NASCAR’s investigation on a noose found in black driver Bubba Wallace‘s garage.
“Well I think you’re mischaracterizing the tweet,” McEnany said. “The tweet was aimed at pointing out that the FBI report of the alleged hate crime at NASCAR concluded that the garage-door pull, which had been there since last fall, was obviously not targeted at a specific individual because, in fact, it was a garage pull and, in fact, it was there since last fall long before these 43 teams arrived.”
Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter!
A week of political news in your in-box.
We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.
After a reporter asked her to comment on Trump’s stance on the Confederate flag, McEnany claimed the president did not have an opinion on the matter.
“He’s not given an opinion one way or the other on that,” she said. “I just spoke to him this morning.”
A Bloomberg reporter then asked why Trump would not “praise” the ban of Confederate flag, McEnany again moved away from addressing president’s stance on the flag and instead criticized the removal of Confederate monuments across the country, calling it “cancel culture.”
“What we’re seeing across the nation is this vast cancel culture where we’re going to tear down our monuments. We’re going to tear down Gandhi. We’re going to tear down George Washington. We’re going to tear down Lincoln,” McEnany said. “It’s really quite appalling … and the president wants no part in cancel culture.”
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned noncompete agreements in a 3-2 vote. The…
A proposed bill in California would prohibit security screening company CLEAR from skipping the general…
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a challenge to a law allowing…
The Arizona House of Representatives failed to advance a repeal of the state's 160-year-old abortion…
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill restoring criminal charges in cases of hard drug possession.…
President Joe Biden's administration announced the first-ever national limits on toxic "forever chemicals" in drinking water. This…