White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump is serious about wanting the NFL's Washington Commanders to go back to the name Redskins.

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.”

  • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    “The president was serious,” Leavitt told reporters Monday while answering questions on the White House driveway. “He seriously wants to distract you with culture war issues, rather than let you continue to focus on the countless crimes of pedophilia and child rape he’s committed in the past.”

  • Reality_Suit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Trump moved on from finding out who Epsteins client list is. I wonder why. Oh well, I guess let’s start talking about something else instead of how Trump was Epsteins’s right-hand man. They both loved little secrets.