Overview

• President Trump used Truth Social posts and a White House statement to warn that he will block federal approval for a new RFK Stadium financing unless the Washington Commanders revert to the Redskins name and the Cleveland Guardians return to the Indians.
• The NFL’s Commanders and MLB’s Guardians have affirmed they have no intention of reversing their 2020 and 2022 rebrands, with league officials backing the current identities.
• Mark Macarro, president of the National Congress of American Indians, condemned the effort as ignoring established research linking Native mascots to elevated rates of depression, self-harm and substance abuse among Indigenous youth.
• The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into a Long Island school district’s Native-themed mascot change as states including Maine, Oregon, Washington, Colorado and New York enforce bans on such imagery.
• Psychologists and Native advocacy groups reiterated support for the American Psychological Association’s 2001 recommendation and subsequent legal measures against reviving Indigenous mascots in sports.