Topline President Donald Trump called for the Washington Commanders to “immediately” change their name back to the Washington Redskins, the controversial moniker criticized for years as a racial slur that the team abandoned in 2020, suggesting he’d intervene to block a multi-billion dollar deal for a new stadium in Washington, D.C., if the name isn’t changed back. !” Trump also mentioned the Cleveland Guardians, who changed their name and mascot from the Cleveland Indians, insisting, without further elaborating, that “our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen.” Trump followed up with a separate post Sunday afternoon, saying “if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,” claiming his original statement had “totally blown up.” Trump has criticized the name change to reporters multiple times in the past, but ramped up the call for change Sunday, claiming “times are different now than they were three or four years ago.” The Redskins moniker was dropped after the 2019 season, with the team officially going by the name “Washington Football Team” for the 2020 and 2021 seasons before the Commanders name was adopted for 2022. After the Cleveland Guardians announced they would retire their “Indians” nickname, Trump in a 2020 tweet said it was “not good news, even for ‘Indians’” and blamed “cancel culture.” When asked about the Commanders’ name change multiple times this year, Trump said he would not have changed the name in the first place.
Author: Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff, Zachary Folk, Forbes Staff https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/
Published at: 2025-07-20 20:42:48
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