Trump speaks out against sports teams abandoning Native American names

President Donald Trump addressed the question of sports teams that underwent sanction changes successful caller years to region references to Native American heritage. 

Trump called the sanction changes "degrading to the Indian population." 

"I deliberation it's degrading to the Indian population, and it's a large population, and they similar erstwhile they're called by assorted names," Trump said. 

Trump declined to accidental whether helium would effort to get the Washington Commanders to alteration their sanction backmost to Redskins arsenic a information for gathering a caller stadium connected national property. However, Trump did accidental helium believes Redskins was amended than the team's existent name. 

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"I tin archer you that I spoke to radical of Indian practice who emotion that sanction and emotion that team, and I deliberation it's a overmuch superior sanction to what they person close present and it had practice down it, it had thing special," Trump said. 

The Washington Post released a canvass successful June that recovered that 58% of fans of Commanders fans said they bash not similar the team's caller name.

Trump besides lambasted the determination to rename MLB's Cleveland Indians to the Guardians aft the extremity of the 2021 season. 

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"They changed the sanction of the Cleveland Indians. Why would you instrumentality the sanction ‘Indians’ disconnected the Cleveland Indians? And present it's called the Cleveland thing else," Trump said. "So it conscionable doesn't marque consciousness to me.

"I deliberation it truly is demeaning to Indians. But to alteration the sanction of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians, for example, to the Cleveland Guardians is not the same, and I'm definite it has an interaction connected the team." 

Meanwhile, successful Long Island, Massapequa High School's nickname is the Chiefs, but New York instrumentality states that schools indispensable region logos that are related to indigenous radical by the extremity of the year.

The Massapequa schoolhouse territory sued the state, but a national justice ruled against the district.

Trump antecedently spoke retired successful enactment of the school's close to support its name. 

"I hold with the radical successful Massapequa, Long Island, who are warring furiously to support the Massapequa Chiefs logo connected their Teams and School," Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

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Dec 4, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; Detailed presumption of a Washington Redskins logo connected a helmet against the Arizona Cardinals astatine University of Phoenix Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

"Forcing them to alteration the name, aft each of these years, is ridiculous and, successful actuality, an affront to our large Indian population. The School Board, and virtually everyone successful the area, are demanding the sanction beryllium kept. It has go the School’s individuality and, what could beryllium incorrect with utilizing the name, ‘Chief’? I don’t spot the Kansas City Chiefs changing their sanction anytime soon! By transcript of this TRUTH, I americium asking my highly susceptible Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to combat for the radical of Massapequa connected this precise important issue. LONG LIVE THE MASSAPEQUA CHIEFS!"

The Commanders and Guardians changed their names from the "Redskins" and "Indians" aft nationalist outcry. The Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, and Florida State Seminoles person each been pressed, but person not changed their nicknames.

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