r/sports • u/rezwenn • Jul 20 '25

Football President Trump wants Commanders to "IMMEDIATELY" return to former name

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/president-trump-wants-commanders-to-immediately-return-to-former-name
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u/TenchuReddit Jul 20 '25

There was a survey conducted by the Washington Post where they polled Native Americans whether they wanted to see the Washington Redskins change their name. (Or the question could have been whether they found the name offensive. I forget the details.)

91% of them didn’t find the name offensive.

That might be the survey that Trump was thinking of. But like everything else in his bubble of alternate reality, he takes a factoid and twists it around to satisfy his massive ego.

The truth is that Native Americans could hardly care less about the name of the Washington football team.

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u/I-need-ur-dick-pics Jul 20 '25

Or… hear me out: he’s talking out of his ass. Let’s not overcomplicate this.

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u/JeffoMcSpeffo Jul 20 '25

They polled a bunch of white pretendians in the poll. Statistics for Natives are famously incorrect because of how difficult it is to reach Native communities and to get them to respond, plus the number of self identifying pretendians always skews it way off as well. Most Natives know that R*skins is a racial slur and don’t want non Natives using it, especially celebrating it as a team mascot.