After rebranding the Gulf of Mexico<\/a> to the Gulf of America <\/a>earlier this year, the president is now calling for the Washington Commanders<\/a> and the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> to revert their names to the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, respectively. <\/p>\n But his demands for the Commanders comes with a threat: go back to the Redskins, or lose your stadium. <\/p>\n “I may put a restriction on them that if they don\u2019t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won\u2019t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday.<\/p>\n The Commanders struck a deal to move back into the nation\u2019s capital after moving to Maryland. The current deal would see the Commanders return with a new stadium in 2030. <\/p>\n The team left the name \u201cRedskins\u201d behind in 2020 after years of pressure from groups complaining that the team was using a racial slur for Native Americans<\/a> as its name. The team initially went by the “Washington Football Team” until it settled on the Commanders as its new name<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Indians became the Guardians in 2021<\/a> after similar pressure to change the name and the team’s Chief Wahoo logo. The Cleveland Major League Baseball team had been called the Indians since 1915. <\/p>\n On Sunday, Trump went on a Truth Social rant demanding that the teams revert to their original names, claiming that “our great Indian people” want the name changes. <\/p>\n It came as the president is under pressure for his links to Jeffrey Epstein and his administration\u2019s failure to release all the files associated with his case.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Washington \u2018Whatever\u2019s\u2019 should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cThere is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. 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!!!\u201d<\/p>\n In 2020, a University of Michigan\/University of California, Berkeley poll given to Native American respondents <\/a>found that half were offended by the name “Redskins,” and 65 percent said they were offended by the “tomahawk chop” done at sporting events. Even more \u2014 73 percent \u2014 said fans doing imitations of Native American dances was offensive. <\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump_08229.jpg\")
President Donald Trump called for the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians to revert to their original names \u2014 the Redskins and the Indians, respectively \u2014 during a recent Truth Social rant (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n