Trump Wants To Make Offensive Sports Team Names Great Again
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Despite facing a slew of current controversies, the president had his mind on other things on Sunday.
Amid ICE raids, tariff tumult, health concerns and increasing anger about his alleged ties to predator Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump is keeping his eyes on culture wars.
In a Sunday morning post on Truth Social, the president wrote, “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past.”
Both football’s Washington Commanders and baseball’s Cleveland Guardians walked away from their controversial old names in the wake of the 2020 racial reckoning sparked by the murder of George Floyd.
The moves were a culmination of yearslong campaigns by Native American groups and advocates who argued team names evoked harmful stereotypes of Indigenous savagery along with logos that were often offensive caricatures.
But in his post, Trump claimed that public sentiment had since shifted and even Native communities were asking for the teams to reverse course.
