Donald Trump says changing the name of the Cleveland Indians baseball team to “Guardians” is "a disgrace."
Bowing to cancel culture, the Cleveland baseball team announced the change Friday in a Twitter post featuring Tom Hanks, star of the movie “A League of Their Own.”
In Trump’s fiery statement, he said:
“Can anybody believe that the Cleveland Indians, a storied and cherished baseball franchise since taking the name in 1915, are changing their name to the Guardians?
“Such a disgrace, and I guarantee that the people who are most angry about it are the many Indians of our Country. Wouldn’t it be an honor to have a team named the Cleveland Indians, and wouldn’t it be disrespectful to rip that name and logo off of those jerseys?”
Former President Trump slams the Cleveland Indians' name change.
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"Can anybody believe that the Cleveland Indians, a storied and cherished baseball franchise since taking the name in 1915, are changing their name to the Guardians? Such a disgrace.."
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The New York Post noted the Tribe originally announced last December that it would tomahawk its nickname. A nickname enhanced by the popular movies “Major League” and “Major League II”, that is. The team’s chief attempted to appease triggered, melting snowflakes who find such nicknames offensive.
Team owner Paul Dolan said he had an “awakening or epiphany” after the 2020 death of George Floyd and that contributed to the decision to dispatch the name “Indians” to the politically incorrect hall of shame. Most Native Americans are proud of sports teams using nicknames like Indians, Braves, Chiefs and Redskins. Dolan stands with a small minority of Americans opposed to Indian nicknames.
Former President Trump clearly has no use for Dolan’s wimping out.
“The people of Cleveland cannot be thrilled and I, as a FORMER baseball fan, cannot believe things such as this are happening. A small group of people, with absolutely crazy ideas and policies, is forcing these changes to destroy our culture and heritage. At some point, the people will not take it anymore!”
It was a team known as the Indians that became the first American League franchise to hire a black player, named Larry Doby. The Indians were the first MLB team to hire a black manager, Frank Robinson. However, in elitist circles, the nickname is over the top and must go.
The Indians will stay on the warpath through the end of this season, then retire to the dust bin of history. The club will re-emerge next spring as the namesake of a cold, hard bridge – the Guardians. Then, in the spirit of the late George Gipp, Cleveland’s battle cry will become: win one for the bridge!
The move is just the latest chapter in a dumpster fire of a season for Major League Baseball.
Commissioner Rob Manfred succumbed to pressure from the far Left to move the All-Star Game out of Georgia because Republicans passed laws to bolster election integrity. As a result, the game’s television audience was the second worst in its history.
A Morning Consult opinion poll exposed baseball as the second least popular professional “wokeball” sport in America.
Now the geniuses who run the Cleveland Indians have come up with a solution that was looking for a non-existent problem.
Three strikes? That’s an out.