President Trump on Sunday publicly demanded that the Washington Commanders to change the team name back to the Redskins\u2014 labeling them derisively the \u201cWashington Whatever\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said the Cleveland Guardians should revert to being the Indians.<\/p>\n
President Trump is urging the owner of the NFL\u2019s Washington Commanders to return to their original name. AP<\/p>\n
The team officially changed their name to the Commanders in 2022. Getty Images<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Washington \u2018Whatever\u2019s\u2019 should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this,\u201d Trump declared, unprompted on Truth Social Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cLikewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past,\u201d the president went on. \u201cOur 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!\u201d<\/p>\n
A Washington Redskins fan looks on before their game against the Tennessee Titans at FedEx Field on October 19, 2014 in Landover, Maryland. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Cleveland Guardians had rebranded away from their old name, the Cleveland Indians, in 2020 \u2014\u00a0 after dropping the \u201cChief Wahoo\u201d logo years earlier.<\/p>\n
That same year, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump on Sunday publicly demanded that the Washington Commanders to change the team name back to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,491,1376,514,82,886,1758],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-donald-trump","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-us-news","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}