President Trump not too long ago decried the choice by skilled sports activities groups, similar to the previous Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins to bow right down to cancel tradition from the woke, radical left and alter their workforce names.
Trump known as the title modifications for the present Cleveland Guardians and Washington Commanders “degrading” and “demeaning to Indians.”
He additionally weighed in on the controversy over Lengthy Island’s Massapequa college district’s Chief mascot and workforce title, evaluating the workforce to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, who’ve retained their title and arrowhead-themed emblem amid leftist assaults on sports activities groups.
Throughout a press convention within the Oval Workplace earlier this week, the good John Fredricks, host of Outdoors The Beltway, requested President Trump if he could be concerned in a possible title change for the “Washington Commanders.”
Whereas he didn’t say whether or not or not he would push the Washington, DC soccer workforce, the Commanders, previously the Redskins, to vary their title again with the intention to play at RFK Stadium, the workforce’s former residence, he did share his and plenty of American Indians’ distaste for the title change.
“I believe it’s degrading to the Indian inhabitants, and it’s an ideal inhabitants, and so they like once they’re, you understand, known as by numerous names,” he mentioned with regard to the Redskins and the Cleveland Indians. “It simply doesn’t make sense to me. So, you understand, we’re about bringing widespread sense again to this nation.”
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Fredricks: For these of us that dwell right here within the District, you mentioned whenever you got here in, you had been going to make Washington, DC nice once more. One of many points we’ve obtained proper now could be we perceive there is perhaps an imminent deal between the proprietor of the Washington soccer workforce, no matter you need to name them now, Commanders, and regionally, in getting the Redskins again to DC in RFK Stadium. That’s on federal property. Are you going to be concerned in that negotiation, and would one of many stipulations be they modified their title again to the Redskins?
Trump: That’s slightly bit— No person’s requested me that one. Look, I believe when— the Indian inhabitants is a good a part of this nation, nice heritage, and we’re speaking about Massapequa, Lengthy Island, the Chiefs, they name themselves the chiefs. Nicely, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, they’re not altering their title. An excellent workforce, nice individuals, nice homeowners, nice coach, and Quarterback. I really like the quarterback. I like his girlfriend, too, his spouse. His spouse is— his spouse is nice. She’s been an enormous fan. The quarterback’s mom is unimaginable. I like that workforce. They’re known as the chiefs. And admittedly, I see nothing incorrect with it.
They name them the soldiers, and never that workforce, however a variety of different groups, and all of those Indian surnames and totally different names, and I’m saying that I believe that’s a optimistic factor. And whenever you return to Indians, they polled this. They don’t know why these names are being taken off. They’re making an attempt to— I believe it’s degrading to the Indian inhabitants, and it’s an ideal inhabitants, and so they like once they’re, you understand, known as by numerous names. Now, Washington, the Redskins, maybe that’s slightly totally different, slightly bit totally different, however I can let you know that I spoke to individuals of Indian heritage that love that title, and so they love that workforce, and I believe it’s a a lot, you understand, I believe it’s a superior title to what they’ve proper now. And it had heritage behind it. It had one thing particular.
However a variety of the names having to do with, you understand, totally different locations, not simply Indians, however I believe it’s— they modified the title of the Cleveland Indians. Why would you are taking the title Indians off the Cleveland Indians? And now it’s known as the Cleveland one thing else, proper? Guardians, ugh. It simply doesn’t make sense to me. So, you understand, we’re about bringing widespread sense again to this nation, and it might be fashionable or unpopular, what I’m saying and I’ve simply mentioned to you. See, he’s a pleasant man. You bought quite a bit out of me on this one, however I believe most individuals agree with me. I believe it truly is demeaning to Indians, however to vary the title of the Cleveland Indians, for instance, to the Cleveland Guardians shouldn’t be the identical, and I’m certain it has an influence on the workforce.
