People Are Calling Donald Trump's Latest Truth Social Rant "Batsh** Crazy" After He Demanded Two Sports Teams Bring Back Their Offensive Team Names
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In a recent Truth Social post, Trump wrote: "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!!!"
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For context, the NFL team Washington Commanders (formerly known as the Washington Redskins) officially retired their 87-year-old team name on July 13, 2020, due to public pushback about the term "redskins" being offensive to the Indigenous community, who viewed it both as a "slur" and a "stereotype."
Suzan Harjo, an advocate who fought for the name change and a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, spoke to NPR about why it was so important: "If it's permissible to say such things to us, such names, then it is permissible to do anything to us," she said. "I had lots of things in my personal life using that word. When I was a girl, you barely could make it through your young life without getting attacked by a bunch of white people, whether they were boys or girls or men or women. And they would always go to that word."
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Similarly, the major league baseball team, the Cleveland Guardians (formerly known as the Cleveland Indians), officially changed its team name after the 2021 season. The team's owner, Paul Dolan, credited the "social unrest" in 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, with making him want to change his organization's name.
"We do feel like we're doing the right thing and that's what's driving this,'' Dolan said, according to ESPN. "I know some people disagree, but if anything, I've gotten more and more comfortable that we're headed in the right direction."
Here's what people had to say about Trump's most recent rant:
One person called it a "desperate attempt to distract," seemingly from all of the recent news surrounding Trump and the Epstein files.
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"hes gonna convince his base that the natives want the old names back instead of telling u THEY are the reason the names were changed. telling natives they are 'loosing their heritage' over these names is laughable nobody talks about that shit anymore. nobody fucking cares but him."
"The President of the United States going on about the name of a Football Team this Sunday morning is just another example of how batshit crazy this shitshow is."
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