Trump on Sunday pushed the Washington Commanders NFL team to return to its previous name, which was scrapped five years ago because it included a word that many view as a slur against Native Americans.

The president also threatened to block a complicated deal for the Commanders to return to a stadium in Washington, D.C., unless they return to the name "Washington Redskins."

"The Washington "Whatever's" should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this," Mr. Trump wrote.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Red meat for the base in desperation.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Sports insiders said we could have avoided the 2016 election if NFL owners just let him buy the Bills.

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  • [–] 196 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    How about the Washington EpsteinDidntKillHimselfs?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I need to see the logo first.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Its the naked girl sharpie drawing with the name in collegiate font and the “pubic Donald scrawl” on it. $75.99. Made in China.

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    What did he and Epstein do at that party of just them and a bunch of children without guardians?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn't you see the President's post? Those kids were at the party without indians....

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Predictably crazy banana republic news.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Party of small government, huh?

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He is desperate for any news story that will stop the Epstein news.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gosh, why are people falling for this copium? Conservative outrage about Epstein will end up being a nothingburger, not changing the minds of anyone on the right. They never actually cared about "grooming," and never will. The evidence of this is old and stale, so don't think for a second that the rate of people waking up to conservative lies will change from this. The economy is what will change minds, not the indisputable fact that pedophilia is acceptable on the right.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Conservatives voted for a "man" that was already a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist and had committed treason by instigating an insurrection and attempting to overturn an election going into the 2024 election.

    You are right. Conservatives absolutely are not going to draw the line at pedophilia.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Anything to get the news cycle off of Epstein.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Sounds like good reason to wait for the despot to die or whatever.

    FWIW, billionaires run the NFL, they should pay for their own fucking stadia.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    NFL is a legally legislated monopoly.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oddly enough, there was another football league (USFL) which won an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL.

    I'll bet you'll never guess what dipshit owned the New Jersey Generals until USFL went under. /s

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There’s a great story about how that dipshit sunk the entire enterprise by being a complete incompetent dipshit.

    How the old USFL emerged, and how Trump helped kill it

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I thought the MLB was the only legally legislated court mandated monopoly in the states.

    This case is the main reason why MLB has not faced any competitor leagues since 1922, and MLB, to date, remains the only American sports league with such an antitrust exemption

    Probably more bullshit that Ken Burns taught me.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This fucker wants to micromanage everything. Mind your own business you dumb oaf.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago*

    This seems really important and not like a petty attempt at distraction at all.

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    Epstein list

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    King's Decree.

    He should be sued for this 😮‍💨

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    Finally a president that is tackling the real issues head on. I really hope he forces Aunt Jamima's face back onto syrup bottles soon. I miss seeing that sweet woman at the breakfast table so goddamm much. I'm clamoring Mr president, clamoring I say.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This guy literally cannot go a single day without being even more of a piece of shit than the previous day!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He releases the Epstein Files, unredacted, and maybe they Washington Commanders will change their name back.

    In fact, until he does, I vote they change their name to the Washington Epsteins!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This guy puts his fucking nose in everything.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    TIL that the Washington football team is from Washington D.C., not Washington State.

    I also recently learned that the Pentagon also isn't located in Washington state. This shit needs a disambiguation page for real life.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Football teams are generally named after the city they’re in, not the state. The state of Washington is home to the Seattle Seahawks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I want to toss in for consideration the creative committee that came up with the “Houston Texans”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    To cloud the issue further, The Pentagon is in Virginia and The Washington Football team plays in Maryland and practices in Virginia.

    Also the last time the New York Giants played in New York City was 50 years ago.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    He's just trying to manufacturer distractions from Epstein conversations. Stay focused!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Definitely sweats the big stuff. I assume that the libertarians are fine with being told what to do by this joker. He must be trying to move on from his bromance with Epstein and needs a new controversy.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump accidentally lands on my side. Fuck your publicly funded stadium.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Trump still pissed about his NFL snub. What a fuckin child.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    ...i thnk we need to start calling the donvict a child rapist...RAPIST DON...CHILD RAPIST DON..RAPE DON...nothing seems to roll off the tongue...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean, I’ve been doing it for years, but I forgot to trademark it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    ...you want the president to be a pedophile?...

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean yes, the commanders is a shitty name but going back to the racial slurs isn't the solution. I personally was a fan of the Washington football team era.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He is such an idiot. As President of the US, don't we think he has more important issues to be concerned with? Like, does he have any focus/power of concentration or filter? WTAF. Why do we have this senile dumbass in charge????

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Even better name would be the Washington Epstein List.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He already killed one football league by trying to force his will on it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's funny because America was likely to have year round professional football until Trump killed that league. It was already in the works to have that other league pick up where the NFL season left off.

    Trump literally killed year round football.

    Because everything he touches turns to shit. Including our country.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's almost impressive that someone can be so incompetent as to fail selling football to Americans, and can bankrupt casinos.

    Those are both licenses to print money and the guy fucks up even that.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    This is a distraction from the epstein files.... its not working

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I'm really cool and should be really popular everyone in middle school thinks so there's a big clamoring for this - 12 year old Becky

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