NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace openly admits he is using his new vaccine-themed race car to provoke supporters of President Donald Trumps Make America Great Again movement.
According to Breitbart, Wallace rolled out his No. 23 Toyota Camry, emblazoned with sponsorship from Kroger Health and the COVID-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid, during Sundays YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. In an interview with the Disney-owned The Athletic, Wallace conceded that his vaccine-promoting sponsors are feeding right into those who are uncomfortable with the COVID shots.
He further boasted that he is Just pissing off the keyboard warriors. Man, why not, right? Here we are. Wallace framed his partnership as a public-health effort, even as he acknowledged the backlash it would generate among vaccine skeptics and conservative fans.
The Kroger Health side of things: get your flu shot. People are going to lose their minds over the COVID-19 stuff, but for us its about building opportunities for people to be more educated on getting their flu shots, and then taking care of their health and moving forward with that, he said. He also tried to cast the campaign in unifying terms, despite its obvious culture-war overtones.
Everyone else can make their own in lines, but were all in it together to help everybodys health, Wallace insisted. Wallaces comments come despite a relatively modest record on the track, with only three race wins and a limited number of other top-10 finishes.
Instead, he has become better known for racially charged rhetoric and for his widely publicized and ultimately discredited 2019 allegation that someone had hung a noose in his Talladega garage. The claim was serious enough to trigger an FBI investigation, which quickly undercut the narrative embraced by liberal media outlets.
Agents concluded there was no noose, determining the rope in question was simply the pull cord for the garage door, featuring a loop used to close it, and that no one had targeted Wallace with a racist threat.
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