[Ads-l] Linguistic QOTY

[James Landau]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:53:00 Zone - 0500 Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>quoted:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-debuts-incredibly-creepy-nickname-044012240.html

[Trump]  said. “They don’t use the
word chief of staff anymore because the Indians got extremely upset, but
now the Indians actually want their name used, which is true, they never
didn’t want it used.”
So now Trump is saying that Native Americans are fine with being called "Indians" but do not want the word "Chiefs" used.To be consistent, he will now have to make the Kansas City football team change its name, but should insist the Cleveland baseball team start calling its "Indians" again and likewise the Washington football team should go back to being the "Redskins".
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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