Trump's latest demand: Washington football and Cleveland baseball teams should change names back
Source: NBC News/AP
July 20, 2025, 4:04 PM EDT
President Donald Trump wants Washington's football franchise and Cleveland's baseball team to revert to their former names. Trump said Sunday on his Truth Social site that "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. 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!!!"
Josh Harris, whose group bought the Commanders from former owner Dan Snyder in 2023, said earlier this year the name was here to stay. Not long after taking over, Harris quieted speculation about going back to Redskins, saying that would not happen.
Guardians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti indicated before Sunday's game against the Athletics that there weren't any plans to revisit the name change.
"We understand there are different perspectives on the decision we made a few years ago, but obviously it's a decision we made. We've got the opportunity to build a brand as the Guardians over the last four years and are excited about the future that's in front of us," he said.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-demand-washington-football-cleveland-baseball-name-change-rcna219890
"Price of eggs", "Kitchen table issues", "Working class".

hatrack
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tanyev
(47,156 posts)paleotn
(20,627 posts)Beartracks
(14,000 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(57,163 posts)Have you met the Epstein immigrant detention quotas?
Will you have Health Care ready for Congress in two Epsteins?
Have any Epstein manufacturing plants actually been onshored yet?
How is the Epstein peace progressing in Ukraine?
When do the Epstein tax cuts start putting money in people's pockets?
Will the Epstein wing of your presidential Library have any books in it?
paleotn
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Beartracks
(14,000 posts)Have you signed a new tariff deal with Epsteinistan yet?
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paleotn
(20,627 posts)
Dave Bowman
(5,488 posts)ultralite001
(1,892 posts)a TV series
vapor2
(2,710 posts)agingdem
(8,590 posts)he persuaded Coca Cola, a multinational multi-billion dollar conglomerate, to change their Coke recipe from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar...the fact that the Fanjul family (Trump's Florida neighbors/mega donors) just happen to own vast tracts of land for growing sugar cane is just a coincidence...it's about public health, after all, because as we all know Trump has always been a big health advocate.
as an aside: the last time Coke changed their recipe (1985) the backlash was so swift and so cataclysmic they were forced to go back to the original recipe...a decision so disastrous to the company's brand four decades later The Coke Debacle is a cautionary tale taught in business schools and referenced in boardrooms...lesson learned, Coca-Cola..yes/no?...
and now the malicious psychotic degenerate is demanding two NFL teams recoup their old names, Native American slurs, and he's prepared to sue to make that happen...go for it, asshole!
Trump's "shiny-penny" announcements have done nothing to divert MAGA outrage from what they perceived as a Democrat- invented conspiracy, intended to hurt their sexual predator god..apparently the fact that Trump once praised his then teenage daughter's breasts (Ivanka) and said he would date her if she wasn't his daughter, never registered with Trump voters as vomitus...
now the loathsome MAGA cult is pearl-clutching, not because their rapist idol played with underage girls, but because those damn liberals were right...OH MY!!!
John1956PA
(4,298 posts)There is a theory (perhaps totally untrue) that Coke perpetrated a con upon its customers via the 1985 stunt. The theory is that Coke wanted to switch from cane sugar to corn syrup because of cost reasons. Coke knew that, if the change in recipe were to be suddenly foisted upon the customers, they would recognize the subtle change in flavor and voice complains to it. Therefore, the plan was hatched to replace the old recipe with a temporary dummy placeholder (having a notably unappealing taste) so that the customers would forget the nuanced taste of the original with its cane sugar. Coke gave the new product about a half a year to wash away the memory of the original's taste, and then it brought back the "original" recipe which replaced cane sugar with corn syrup.
The above theory may be complete nonsense, I but I wanted to throw it out for purposes of historical perspective and conspiracy-theory reference.
ProudMNDemocrat
(19,896 posts)So changing the baseball team from the Cleveland Indians to the Guardians seemed a logical and right move to make. These statues that watch over the West and East sides of Cleveland have been there for decades since 1932. The west side of Cleveland was Lorraine Blvd. The east side became Carnegie Blvd.
Keepthesoulalive
(1,557 posts)Those statues and White Castle, im good.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,735 posts)I have seen pictures of the bridge with the Guardian statues and it is very impressive. If the baseball team was going to change their name, I feel Guardians is an inspired choice.
TSF needs to keep his nose out of this- I guess hes still butthurt over getting turned down by NFL owners years back when he wanted to purchase the Buffalo Bills.
wolfie001
(5,725 posts)But his poo-flinging may be the method in all this madness. Every day with this piece of shit.
Beartracks
(14,000 posts)And his dupes and fans (and staff) are all too willing to follow through on full blast via media and social media pressure (you know: cancel culture!) to try and make whatever silly fantasies he blurts out come true -- so much so, that Trump seems to actually believe he has to merely wish something out loud and it should magically come to pass -- or that, at the least, it's supposed to magically take focus off his Epstein files debacle.
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JoseBalow
(7,958 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(870 posts)Tell Trump to go fuck himself with a saguaro cactus. I think he's going to be too busy in court rather than screwing the NFL.
twodogsbarking
(14,449 posts)wolfie001
(5,725 posts)
nowforever
(564 posts)Guess his next ask will be the resurrection of the Sambo's restaurant chain.
Rhiannon12866
(239,147 posts)Now it's a Friendly's.
Paladin
(31,071 posts)Jimvanhise
(459 posts)To interfere in private business. It is actually illegal for a politician to pressure a private business which is not breaking any law.
mwb970
(11,881 posts)What a truly horrible "man".
Tribetime
(6,729 posts)mdbl
(6,952 posts)I guess he's got nothing better to think about.
Pinback
(13,324 posts)Just Jerome
(254 posts)in a small pharmaceutical company named Ionis. Ionis used to be called Isis until a few years ago. I shall be issuing a demand to the Board of Directors this week.
Bring back Isis!
Playingmantis
(439 posts)The Hollow Man..Empty and Dark...his voice like dry leaves ..his smell like cow shit...
mwb970
(11,881 posts)It is odd that so many of them (like these, and the Coke business) involve him telling corporations how they must run their businesses, given the republican aversion to regulations and government "interference".
Isn't the economic system in which the government controls the corporations called "Communism"?
Eugene
(65,814 posts)YoshidaYui
(43,992 posts)RIGHT, LIKE THAT WAS EVER GOING TO HAPPEN YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,106 posts)The Cleveland franchise in the American League wasn't called the Indians until 1915. (That might've ben a tribute to Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot who played for the National League's Cleveland Spiders in 1897-99 and died in 1913.)
Before they were the Indians, they were the Blues for one season, then the Napoleons (for Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie, one of baseball's best hitters) and then just the Naps.
LisaM
(29,285 posts)Even if they were, the term Original Six refers to the NHL.
Godot51
(558 posts)The Washington drumpfskins.
The Cleveland felons?
And the Atlanta Braves could become the Atlanta tacos?
Justice Brandeis
(88 posts)It was the Naps.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,163 posts)Indigenous people do not like to be called Indian by non-indigenous people, even though they might term themselves "Indian" from time to time sometimes ironically. Like african-Americans sometimes apply the n-word to themselves among themselves.
twodogsbarking
(14,449 posts)IronLionZion
(49,473 posts)and "Donny's finally going down for something".
hadEnuf
(3,313 posts)n/t
twodogsbarking
(14,449 posts)azureblue
(2,493 posts)of desperation.... The hyenas are closing in, and nobody's buying his act anymore..
Torchlight
(5,138 posts)"The President 'Whatever's' should IMMEDIATELY release the Epstein Files. There is a big clamoring for this. Our great American 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. IDIOTS, GET IT DONE!!!"