During a Truth Social rant a few days ago, President Trump threatened to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington D.C. unless the local NFL team now known as the Commanders, changes their name back to the Redskins. The team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a degrading racial slur with links to US genocide of indiginous populations.
“I may put a restriction on them 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,” he stated on his social media platform.
In an obvious reference to his war on DEI, Trump also said “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!!!”
Later, when asked to clarify why he would resurrect such a contentious issue, Trump seemed firm in his response. “That name change was a disgrace, a bunch of woke nonsense. We all remember those pesky redskins. One of them came up to me just the other day, big man, strong man, war paint streaming down his cheeks. He said “sir, sir, why did white man change name of football team? Me, redskin. Call me redskin, my heart will soar like a hawk. You, heap big chief, you make white man change name back!’ I gotta tell you ol’ Red, I call him Red, he was really mad. You don’t want to piss off those redskins I’ll tell you. They’ll SKIN YOU ALIVE! They have those special scalping knifes. Of course in the old days they were called ‘dirty redskins’ because they fought kind of dirty- the scalping, flaming arrows, nasty war clubs with nails in them. And living in those Teepee’s they didn’t really shower or anything. But we took care of that, cleaned them up, sent the kids to nice schools and got rid of all the buffalo so they finally started eating right. When we get back our great football team, the’ Washington Redskins,’ I think the players should wear different colors of that stuff they smear on their faces, some nice red and blue, like, flag colors, maybe some white, to look more like real redskins. Ol’ Red would really like that. I don’t like that black color. There’s too much black going around. I think the fans would like to see their Redskins look more like real Redskins. If that doesn’t happen, then, well, management might be getting a visit from the tax auditor.”
Sticking with a theme of merging the good old days with the new age, Trump also reminded his supporters that there was a time when pedophilia was commonly accepted, and it was time everyone moved on from the practice’s social distain. “I can’t believe people are still talking about sexual abuse of children. We should be talking about all the great things I have done to make America great again. I have gotten more things done in 6 months than any previous president got done in four years. That’s what people should be talking about.” He went on to mention that the age of concent has kept creeping upward over the years, and states needed to get back to the good old days and take a hard look at lowering it or getting rid of it altogether. The importance of compliance in this regard seems paramount to Trump since he threatened to withhold federal funding of any kind to states that do not submit to his desire.