huge Donald Trump guy.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nTrump has been to a handful of races over the past 18 months, and he’s spent a ton of that time with Childress and his drivers, including his grandson, Austin Dillon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dillon, by the way, spoke about Kirk on Friday. To my knowledge, this is the first time an athlete has been asked about the assassination since it happened earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It makes me want to get into the bible more and learn more about Jesus and try to spread the Word whenever I can,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Look, I didn’t want to do a ton of Charlie Kirk today. Frankly, I’m tired. It’s been a week. It’s a college football Saturday, and we need it in this country now more than ever. Lord, give us all the college football today!<\/p>\n
But, this is still a huge topic as we head into this weekend. Obviously. One of the biggest, most beloved activists of maybe my lifetime was murdered in cold blood, and literally everyone saw it. I don’t recall an assassination like this playing out in the current social media era we’re in right now, so it’s going to resonate with a lot of new, young people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’m one of them. And yes, it’s been a tough week. Don’t love the tenor in this country right now. Don’t love the vibe, at all. It’s why I don’t really feel like writing about it anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But, when NASCAR dudes do the right thing, and say the right things, I will gladly write about that. Good on RCR. Good on Austin Dillon. I would expect something similar from the crowd in Bristol on Saturday night. You’ll be shocked by this, but most of them were\/are really big Charlie Kirk fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Who knew there would be crossover there!<\/p>\n
Anyway, let’s go have a big college football Saturday. Relax. Eat. Drink. Be merry. And then let’s watch a playoff elimination race at Bristol later tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sound like a plan? Good.<\/p>\n
Break!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solid move here by NASCAR, Austin Dillon and RCR. PublishedSeptember 13, 2025 7:38 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedSeptember 13, 2025 7:38…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-140885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}