Danica Patrick Makes Feelings Clear on “No Kings” Protests With Kaitlin Bennett Post

NASCAR and Indy­Car leg­end Dan­i­ca Patrick has made her stance unmis­tak­ably clear on the ongo­ing “No Kings” protests across the Unit­ed States — demon­stra­tions aimed at what par­tic­i­pants call author­i­tar­i­an behav­ior with­in Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion.

Patrick, 43, who now serves as part of Sky Sports’ For­mu­la 1 cov­er­age, has nev­er hid­den her con­ser­v­a­tive lean­ings or her sup­port for Trump. This week, she shared a video clip from Kaitlin Ben­nett, a well-known gun rights activist and con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor, on her Insta­gram sto­ry. The footage showed pro­test­ers shout­ing at Ben­nett dur­ing one of her street inter­views.

Along­side the clip, Patrick wrote, “I try not to judge… but they are mak­ing it very hard.” The post made waves among fans and crit­ics alike — with many inter­pret­ing it as a point­ed crit­i­cism of the pro­test­ers them­selves.

Patrick’s post fol­lows a series of recent moments where she’s spo­ken open­ly about her polit­i­cal awak­en­ing and iden­ti­ty. Appear­ing on Riley Gaines’ pod­cast Gaines for Girls, she described how she first began to iden­ti­fy with the Repub­li­can Par­ty.

“It felt like a call­ing,” Patrick said. “Stand­ing up for some­thing is a pow­er­ful thing because it’s when you’re in your truth. When you’re in your truth, you’re quite mag­net­ic… the uni­verse just lines things up for us.”

She went on to explain that her jour­ney into pol­i­tics began only a lit­tle over a year ago, when she attend­ed her first polit­i­cal event — AmFest in Phoenix, host­ed by con­ser­v­a­tive activist Char­lie Kirk.

“It went real­ly quick­ly for me. It was a lit­tle over a year ago that I went to my first ever polit­i­cal event, which was AmFest here in Phoenix.

“I did­n’t know who Char­lie Kirk was. I nev­er paid atten­tion to pol­i­tics and quite spe­cial­ly have been avoid­ing the news since 2018. I just watched YouTube and spir­i­tu­al infor­ma­tion, but not the news. After going to that event, I post­ed some pho­tos of my sis­ter and I.

Patrick also recount­ed how meet­ing Tuck­er Carl­son and appear­ing on his show drew her fur­ther into the polit­i­cal world, lead­ing to more col­lab­o­ra­tions with con­ser­v­a­tive fig­ures.

Inter­est­ing­ly, Patrick cred­its Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for inspir­ing her to become polit­i­cal­ly active. After ini­tial­ly run­ning as a Demo­c­rat before switch­ing to an Inde­pen­dent cam­paign and lat­er join­ing forces with Pres­i­dent Trump, Kennedy Jr. now serves as U.S. Sec­re­tary of Health and Human Ser­vices (HHS) fol­low­ing a nar­row Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion.

Patrick shared a pho­to of her­self with Kennedy Jr., writ­ing, “The cause that got me into pol­i­tics. MAHA! @robertfkennedyjr is doing such amaz­ing things.”

Despite crit­i­cism from some cor­ners, Patrick’s polit­i­cal con­vic­tions appear stronger than ever — and her lat­est post about the “No Kings” protests under­scores her will­ing­ness to speak her mind, no mat­ter how divi­sive the reac­tion.

Her return to For­mu­la 1 com­men­tary has also stirred dis­cus­sion among fans, par­tic­u­lar­ly after her recent appear­ance at the Austin GP, where some expressed frus­tra­tion over her out­spo­ken views.