Posted on 07/20/2025 12:53:27 PM PDT by Libloather
President Trump on Sunday publicly demanded that the Washington Commanders change the team name back to the Redskins— labeling them derisively the “Washington Whatever’s.”
He also said the Cleveland Guardians should revert to being the Indians.
Both teams had rebranded several years ago due to concerns that their Native American-inspired names were offensive, but Trump argued that the pendulum has since swung back against political correctness.
“The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this,” Trump declared, unprompted on Truth Social Sunday.
“Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past,” the president went on. “Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago.”
“We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!”
In 2020, after long resisting pressure to do so, the Washington Commanders retired the old name, the Washington Redskins. For two years, they played as the Washington Football Team before eventually deciding to call themselves the Commanders in 2022.
The Cleveland Guardians announced plans to ditch its old name, the Cleveland Indians, in late 2020 — after dropping the “Chief Wahoo” logo years earlier.
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He’s Commander-in-Chief. He could file for trademark infringement.
I live near Nashville so I always confuse them with the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Before the official name change, sports announcers and talk hosts called them the Washington football team. Like calling a boy with his junk removed a girl.
They could have saved money and just changed it to the “Washington Reds”.
No no no no no! Screw it! That ship has sailed! Make the left live and die by their own bullsh##! Erase Native American references to all pop culture! Do it!
Thank you, totally agree.
I also post to threads about on topics I don’t care about.
DITTO Havent watched a football game in over 20 years but I hate the degradation of the culture (of course, football is doing a good job of that on their own)
LMAO
Glad to hear it.
Cleveland Indians too!
***. Commanders ***
Commies - for short.
AND Uncle Ben
Yes, bring back the Redskins.
I want the Indian Maiden back on the butter too.
The democrats removed all the minorities from products like Aunt Jemima and Mrs Butterworth and Mia the Indian woman from Land O’ Lakes butter and the black man from Uncle Ben’s Rice as well as the Chief logo and the name of the Redskins.
Democrats hate blacks and the Indians. The party leaders who pull the strings are white hateful liberals and any blacks are a front and are just there for the money like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
This is dumb.
It’s not his concern, at all.
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