Trump Tackles Football's War on Words

Donald Trump is back at it—this time going straight for the throat of woke sports. Over the weekend, he lit up social media and campaign stops by calling on the NFL to bring back the Washington “Redskins” and MLB to restore the Cleveland “Indians.” His reasoning? The war on team names is part of the Left’s larger obsession with “language purity” and erasing tradition in the name of fake outrage.

Trump didn’t mince words. He slammed the name changes as corporate cowardice and a cultural surrender to “woke crybabies.” His base cheered. The media freaked. The Washington Post called it “a distraction from scandal”—as if the real scandal isn’t teams caving to a few blue-haired activists on Twitter.

Let’s get real. Nobody was offended by the Redskins name until white liberals told everyone they should be. Native American polls back in 2016 showed over 90% didn’t care. But the woke machine doesn’t need facts—it needs targets. And rich sports teams became their easiest punching bag.

Reverting names would cause a meltdown among ad agencies and PR firms stuck in their old DEI ways. Sponsors would panic, fan bases would be divided. But here’s the twist: fans are already ditching woke leagues. Bringing back tradition might just bring back customers.

Bottom Line: Trump knows how to press the right buttons—and this latest culture grenade just exposed how weak and hypocritical woke sports have become.