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In It to Win It

(11,231 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:31 AM Jul 21

Trump threatens Washington stadium deal unless NFL team readopts Redskins name

Trying to draw attention away from Epstein.

July 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday 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 its name back to Redskins.

The American football team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the U.S. genocide of the Indigenous population.

Trump had called for a return to the name Redskins - and for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team to once again adopt the name Indians - on other occasions, but on Sunday he added that he may take official action.

"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," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/trump-threatens-washington-stadium-deal-unless-nfl-team-readopts-redskins-name-2025-07-20/
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Trump threatens Washington stadium deal unless NFL team readopts Redskins name (Original Post) In It to Win It Jul 21 OP
A devils deal Pachamama Jul 21 #1
Our Commander-in-Chief doesn't like the name Commanders? generalbetrayus Jul 21 #2
Always laser-focused on meaningful issues, that's our Taco-in-Chief! Buns_of_Fire Jul 21 #3
OK Orange Skin. 🤪 nt Raine Jul 21 #4
Anything to distract Hornedfrog2000 Jul 21 #5
All they have to do just blow up the deal and move to Virginia like they wanted to at first n/t Wanderlust988 Jul 21 #6
Was it raining so he couldn't play golf?? Rhiannon12866 Jul 21 #7
F him 🖕 Figarosmom Jul 21 #8
I like how you think. IzzaNuDay Jul 21 #11
Yep. King Donald is in charge -- his word is the world's order. Disgusting. nt allegorical oracle Jul 21 #18
Is there nothing he won't poke his greasy orange bloated nose into? Grim Chieftain Jul 21 #9
All they have to do is cross a bridge to no longer be in DC. Their fans would cross the same bridge to see them. appleannie1 Jul 21 #10
So why the fuck canetoad Jul 21 #12
people are afraid of getting the cosh Celerity Jul 21 #13
I've never lived canetoad Jul 21 #14
I see little possibilities of wide-ranging kinetic resistance of Trump's burgeoning dictatorship atm. Celerity Jul 21 #16
He doesn't care about the name. He just wants to torment, torture, control others. Irish_Dem Jul 21 #15
'(The Felon) has limited authority Oeditpus Rex Jul 21 #17
Just another extortion attempt by this filthy administration. (nt) Paladin Jul 21 #19
Maybe they could appease him by calling the team the Washington Manbabies. Vinca Jul 21 #20
How is that any of your GD business, President DRUMPF? tanyev Jul 21 #21
Badges, we don't need no stinking badges line from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart Beringia Jul 21 #22
The Washington Trump Knew Epstein Johonny Jul 21 #23

generalbetrayus

(1,100 posts)
2. Our Commander-in-Chief doesn't like the name Commanders?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 02:24 AM
Jul 21

How about renaming them the Orangeskins in his honor?

Buns_of_Fire

(18,618 posts)
3. Always laser-focused on meaningful issues, that's our Taco-in-Chief!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 02:49 AM
Jul 21

Next up: An EO (Emperor's Order) that all toilets in the US be retrofitted to enable no less than a 35GPS (Gallons per Second) flush rate, along with a disclaimer that the government is not responsible for the sucking-away of toiletries, pets, or small children.

Grim Chieftain

(440 posts)
9. Is there nothing he won't poke his greasy orange bloated nose into?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 04:00 AM
Jul 21

He thinks his opinion on anything and everything matters. Lord, what a pathetic excuse for a human being.

appleannie1

(5,301 posts)
10. All they have to do is cross a bridge to no longer be in DC. Their fans would cross the same bridge to see them.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 04:13 AM
Jul 21

canetoad

(19,321 posts)
12. So why the fuck
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 04:45 AM
Jul 21

Are people not standing up to him? Why are his petty, recists demands taken seriously?

canetoad

(19,321 posts)
14. I've never lived
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 05:28 AM
Jul 21

Under a regime such as the US is now suffering. Being Brit born with Brit pragmaticism I've always experienced reasonably fair government.

So we're talking about citizens of the "Land of the Free" being scared of violence, injury and death from their own government because of their political views?

That to me would prompt a revolution.

Celerity

(51,143 posts)
16. I see little possibilities of wide-ranging kinetic resistance of Trump's burgeoning dictatorship atm.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:08 AM
Jul 21

Most Americans either simply do not care remotely enough to reach that level atm or they are, to some degree, pro Trump as a tyrant.

Will that change? I have no really solid predictions as to that.

Irish_Dem

(72,738 posts)
15. He doesn't care about the name. He just wants to torment, torture, control others.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 05:29 AM
Jul 21

Trump is drunk with power.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,151 posts)
17. '(The Felon) has limited authority
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:35 AM
Jul 21
to intervene under the current home-rule law governing federal oversight of the District of Columbia, but he has raised the prospect of taking more control, telling reporters in February, "I think we should take over Washington, D.C."

For starters.

Vinca

(52,457 posts)
20. Maybe they could appease him by calling the team the Washington Manbabies.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:56 AM
Jul 21

WTF? Doesn't this guy have more important things to do like mull over plastic straws or water pressure in the shower?

Beringia

(5,167 posts)
22. Badges, we don't need no stinking badges line from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:31 AM
Jul 21

Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges! Alfonso Bedoya, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre





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