Trump Tells Washington Commanders To Un-Woke Their Name If They Want A New Stadium

President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to block the Washington Commanders organization from building a new stadium in its home city unless it reverts to its former name “Redskins.”

The president also called on the Cleveland Guardians to changes its name, as well, and reimbrace “Indians,” which it dropped in 2021. Washington dropped its “Redskins” name the previous year in 2020.

“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!!!” the president posted on Sunday morning.

In a follow-up post on Sunday afternoon, the president made his threat against the NFL’s Washington Commanders and mocked Matt Dolan, who has a partial stake in the MLB’s Guardians, for losing elections.

“I may put a restriction on [the Commanders organization] that 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. The Team would be much more valuable, and the Deal would be more exciting for everyone,” said Trump.

The Commanders organization is currently negotiating with the city of Washington, D.C., to build a new stadium on federal land at the site of RFK Stadium. In a legislative coup for D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Congress in December turned over administrative control of the RFK site to the city government.

“Cleveland should do the same with the Cleveland Indians. The Owner of the Cleveland Baseball Team, Matt Dolan, who is very political, has lost three Elections in a row because of that ridiculous name change. What he doesn’t understand is that if he changed the name back to the Cleveland Indians, he might actually win an Election,” the president continued. “Indians are being treated very unfairly. MAKE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN (MIGA)!”

Dolan’s brother, Paul, is the primary owner of the Cleveland Guardians. Dolan has served in the Ohio House of Representatives and state Senate. He lost two bids for U.S. Senate – in 2022 in the GOP primary against Vice President J.D. Vance and in 2024 in the GOP primary against Sen. Bernie Moreno.

Cleveland Guardians team president Chris Antonetti respond to the president’s directive on Sunday, saying that the team had no plans to change its name back.

“Not something I’m tracking or paying a lot of attention to, but I would say generally, I understand there are very different perspectives on the decision we made a few years ago,” Antonetti said, according to The Athletic. “But it’s a decision we made and we’ve gotten the opportunity to build the brand as the Guardians over the last four years and we’re excited about the future that’s in front of us.”

More Trade Deals Imminent? Lutnick Predicts Next Two Weeks Will Be ‘For The Record Books’

With President Donald Trump’s latest deadline looming, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declared the next couple of weeks are going to be “for the record books.”

Lutnick provided a bullish outlook for the second part of July during a Sunday interview on CBS ahead of August 1 — the date Trump picked for targeted countries to face steeper tariffs if they fail to reach new trade agreements.

“The next two weeks are going to be weeks for the record books,” Lutnick told “Face The Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan. “President Trump is going to deliver for the American people.”

Over the past couple of months, following “Liberation Day” in April, the Trump administration has struck framework agreements with China, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia.

Even though CBS News released the results of a poll finding 61% of Americans feel the Trump administration is focusing “too much” on tariffs, Lutnick argued they will “love the deals” that he and Trump are working to put together.

“The president figured out the right answer, and sent letters to these countries, said this is going to fix the trade deficit,” Lutnick asserted. “This will go a long way to fixing the trade deficit, and that’s gotten these countries to the table and they’re going to open their markets or they’re going to pay the tariff.”

Lutnick said the Trump administration will impose “a baseline tariff of 10%” on “smaller countries” in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. “And then the bigger economies will either open themselves up, or they’ll pay a fair tariff to America for not opening themselves up and treating America unfairly.”

When it comes to the European Union, the commerce secretary said there is “plenty of room” for the United States to finalize a new trade agreement. “I am confident we’ll get a deal done,” Lutnick contended, though he conceded August 1 is a “hard deadline” for the bloc.

However, “nothing stops countries from talking” after that date, he said, even as “they’re going to start paying tariffs.”

Lutnick also stressed that Trump is “absolutely going to renegotiate” the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) when it reaches a review period next summer.

“He wants to protect American jobs,” Lutnick said of the president. “He doesn’t want cars built in Canada or Mexico when they could be built in Michigan and Ohio. It’s just better for American workers. The president’s got the American workers’ back.”

The secretary went on, “That’s why they elected him. That’s why the stock market is at all-time highs. They understand the president actually understands business and is doing it the right way.”

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