He captioned his story: “This is the visual that will define Trump. 100,000 dead, 40 million unemployed, cities under attack by violent police. When his country needed a leader, Donald Trump turned off the lights and hid in his bunker.”

Lewis Hamilton spoke out against Donald Trump’s attack on ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’ in the workplace during an interview with TIME Magazine last week, but the Brit has had other run-ins with the American president in the past. Since returning to the Oval Office for his second term, Trump has launched a series of controversial executive orders targeted at schemes to improve ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’ (DEI) in business.

Hamilton, who had a number of businesses operating in the United States, spoke out against the president. “I’m not going to change what [Trump] does, or the government does – all I can do is try to make sure that in my space, in my environment, I’m trying to elevate people,” he said. “There’s going to be forces along the way that don’t want that, for whatever reason I can’t fathom. That doesn’t stop me. It is a fight that we’ll just keep fighting.

This was not the first instance of Hamilton speaking up against the US president. In 2020, protests erupted across America after the death of George Floyd. He was killed while in police custody after officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for over eight minutes.

The protests were a mixture of peaceful and violent and sparked clashes between police forces and those attending. Trump responded by threatening to send in the military and clamp down on protesters

Hamilton hit out at the president’s approach with an Instagram story, reposting a viral photo of the White House with the lights turned out during the protests.