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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that changing sports teams’ names to move away from ones associated with Native Americans is “degrading to the Indian population.” But he also conceded that, when it comes to restoring the racist name that Washington’s NFL team used for decades, “Perhaps that’s a little bit different.”
Asked about the Washington Commanders possibly going back to the name the team used before 2020, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “Nobody’s asked me that one.”
The president nonetheless slammed Cleveland’s baseball team for changing its name to the Guardians in 2022, saying, “It just doesn’t make sense to me.” And Trump called Washington’s pre-2020 name “superior” to “what they have right now.”
“It had heritage behind it,” he said. “It had something special.”