Trump complains about ‘wet and sloppy’ Kentucky Derby and blames result on ‘political correctness’

'It was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch'

Donald Trump blamed “political correctness" after the result of the Kentucky Derby was overturned and the horse which crossed the line first was stripped of its title.

The president began his Sunday morning with an angry tweet about the world famous horse race after officials disqualified the first-place horse named Maximum Security, for impeding the path of other horses.

Runner-up Country Horse was then declared the winner.

“The Kentuky Derby decision was not a good one,” Mr Trump lamented. “It was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur,” he continued. “The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close!”

Mr Trump then retweeted a fellow Twitter user demanding Judge Andrew Napolitano be taken off the air after the Fox News analyst said the president had obstructed justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The president was not the only person fired about the controversial result of the Saturday race.

Country Horse, which began with 65-1 odds of winning, became the focus of memes and political jokes over the weekend as many drew comparisons to the 2016 election.

“Apparently one horse won the popular vote and another horse won the Electoral College,” CNN contributor Ana Navarro quipped.

Former White House chief ethics lawyer under President George HW Bush wrote: “When it comes to rules against cheating in a race, a far higher standard applies to Maximum Security, a horse, than applies to the President of the United States.”

“We need the stewards of the Kentucky Derby to run for Congress— one of them for senate against Mitch McConnell,” he added.

The disqualification was marked the first time in the horse race’s 145-year history that a winner had their title overturned.

The race was the culmination of 35 previous races to determine which horses can compete at the annual event.

Viewers posted images from the race to social media showing Maximum Security seemingly impeding other horses, with one Twitter user writing, “if it was any other race they would have also been disqualified and no one would have batted an eye.”