Donald Trump, Cleveland Guardians
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The president's comments about the team's name change have sparked fresh controversy in Northeast Ohio, though many fans say they've moved on and just want the team to win.
President Trump is urging the Cleveland Guardians to revert to their former name, calling it a matter of heritage and "common sense."
Mike Florio called out the Commanders for not responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's threats on Sunday about changing their name.
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Donald Trump threatens to hold up stadium deal if Washington Commanders don’t switch their name back
President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name, which was considered offensive to Native Americans.
From 1937 to 2019, the NFL franchise in Washington was known as the "Redskins," and if the Commanders don't switch back to that name, Trump said he "won't make a deal" for them to build a new stadium.
President Donald Trump put the pressure on the team owners of the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians on Sunday in a post on social media.
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The history of Native American sports name changes, from the Obama era to Trump’s latest comments
MLB’s Cleveland Guardians and the NFL’s Washington Commanders have both indicated they have no plans to go back to names that were abandoned in the aftermath of a reckoning over racial injustice, iconography and racism in the U.