Not The Onion

17363 readers

672 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

120

White House says Donald Trump is serious about wanting the Commanders to revert to Redskins (apnews.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 55 points 5 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.”