Donald Trump on Saturday ranted about Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team changing their name to the Guardians, blaming “woke left lunatics” and Republican state senator Matt Dolan for the switch and “polling” his rally crowd on who wants to “keep it” as the Indians.
At a MAGA rally in Dayton, Ohio on Saturday, Trump boosted his endorsed candidate to run for senate against Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown, businessman and Colombian immigrant Bernie Moreno.
Trump trashed Moreno primary opponent Dolan, a former prosecutor and assistant state attorney general, as well as part owner of the Guardians, as a “RINO” who is “trying to become the next Mitt Romney.”
Trump zeroed in on the team’s name change from Indians to Guardians as proof the Republican is “easily pushed around by the woke left lunatics.”
“So you have a team called the Cleveland Indians. Indians. They’re Indians. Indians,” said Trump. “And they took the name Cleveland Indians and made it the Cleveland Guardians.”
He then made the relatable joke that Guardians sounds like “they’re in charge of a trust fund” which is apparently what people who oversee a trust fund are called. “They’re in charge of a trust fund, the Cleveland Guardians.”
“My attitude is, anybody that changes the name of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians should not be a senator, should not be a governor,” Trump said to applause.
He then solicited the crowd’s input on whether to “keep” the name Cleveland Indians instead — a name that was changed in 2021 after the team announced their intent to do so in 2020.
“Okay, we’ll have a poll. Who wants to keep the Cleveland Indians story? Wait…” he said as the crowd got loud. “So much for that poll.”
After a few seconds, he went again. “Okay, ready? Who wants to see the name change to the, and the way they did it, to the Guardians? Who wants the Guardians?” he said as the crowd booed and jeered.
“Okay, nice and loud, now: Who wants to keep it the Cleveland Indians?” he asked, and the crowd went wild with approval.
“That wasn’t too tough, right?” said Trump.
Matt Dolan once ran for office as a Democrat, and he’s easily pushed around by the Woke Left lunatics who renamed his family’s baseball team. Now think of this.
You know, I happen to like baseball. I like sports. And I like tradition. So you have a team called the Cleveland Indians. Indians. They’re Indians. Indians. And they took the name Cleveland Indians and made it the Cleveland Guardians. It almost like they’re in charge of a trust fund. They’re in charge of a trust fund, the Cleveland Guardians. And my attitude is, anybody that changes the name of the Cleveland Indians to the Cleveland Guardians should not be a senator, should not be a governor.
I don’t know Matt Dolan, but I just know that he’s the guy that I guess owns the team in some form, and he was in charge of changing the name. Who wants… Okay, we’ll have a poll. Who wants to keep the Cleveland Indians story? Wait. So much for that poll.
Okay, ready? Who wants to see the name change to the, and the way they did it, to the Guardians? Who wants the Guardians? Okay, nice and loud, now: Who wants to keep it the Cleveland Indians?
That wasn’t too tough, right?
Watch the clip above via The Times on YouTube.
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