Mon Jan 10, 2022 – 2:37 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has expressed support for LGBCoin, a crypto currency named for the viral anti-Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” chant, whose sponsorship deal with race car driver Brandon Brown was rejected by NASCAR last week.
“I’m very much in favor of letting people speak their mind however they want to do it,” DeSantis said at a press conference Thursday. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with LGBCoin.”
The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” has became a cultural phenomenon after an NBC reporter interviewing winning driver Brandon Brown at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama inaccurately stated that the racetrack audience were chanting “Let’s Go Brandon” when they were actually chanting “F*** Joe Biden.” While the vulgar chant had already been a national trend at football stadiums, rallies, and other events, conservatives immediately picked up “Let’s Go Brandon” as a humorous and coded way to denounce Biden while simultaneously slamming the legacy media for “gaslighting” the public.
DeSantis’s sympathy for LGBCoin comes after NASCAR drew a firestorm of controversy for rejecting a sponsorship deal between the crypto currency and Brandon Brown’s team. LGBCoin had been signed as
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