WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after Donald Trump threatened to hold up a deal for a new football stadium in the nation’s capital if the Washington Commanders did not go back to the name Redskins, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president’s comments were not a joke.
“The president was serious,” Leavitt told reporters Monday while answering questions on the White House driveway. “Sports is one of the many passions of this president and he wants to see the name of that team changed.”
Asked why he’s getting involved, Leavitt called Trump a “nontraditional president” and said sports fans are behind him on this.
“I think you’ve seen the president gets involved in a lot of things that most presidents have not,” Leavitt said. “He’s a nontraditional president. He likes to see results on behalf of the American people and, if you actually poll this issue with sports fans across the country, and even in this city, people actually do support the president’s position on this and the name change.”
"President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense," Trump wrote in an October 2013 post on X (formerly Twitter).
"If you poll this" - would imply that they have a poll supporting this position. Where is it? Also, and far more importantly, where's the Epstein Client List, and top secret birthday letter?
He does realize the name "Washington Commanders" is basically about him, right? His ego has got to be more important to him than his racism...unless he actually doesn't know that Commander is referring to Commander in Chief.
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