Washington, Donald Trump and Commander
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Our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense,” Donald Trump tweeted in 2013. Then-President Barack Obama, Trump said, “should not be telling” Washington, D.C.’s NFL team “to change their name.
President Trump has reignited the debate over the Washington Commanders team name, the latest example of the president using sports in his second term to expand his influence and impact on culture. Trump upended what appeared to be a settled issue when he threatened to use the power of the presidency to hold up
Trump demanded that the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians revert to their old names in a series of posts on his social media platform, Truth Social.