Social Media Wonders Why Trump Suddenly Cares About Washington Commanders' Team Name

Trump announced on Sunday that “the Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team” and claimed that “there is a big clamoring for this.”

A short time later, he threatened to prevent the team from building a new stadium in D.C. if the name wasn’t changed back to the offensive one.

“I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,” he said on his TruthSocial platform.

But many people on social media were skeptical about Trump’s sudden obsession with seemingly old news.

Besides making the demand for the Washington Commanders name change, Trump’s also been making other plays for people’s attention, including:

But many people on social media suspected that there’s a specific reason the president and his administration have been desperate to, as former White House adviser Stephen Bannon once put it, “flood the zone with shit.”

That reason? Here’s a hint: It’s spelled E-p-s-t-e-i-n.

Will Trump’s attempt to create distractions work? Here’s what people on social media have to say about it: