Matt Walsh: Trump's push to change the Washington Commanders' name is an “unsubtle attempt to change the subject” from Epstein
Walsh: “It is hard for me to stomach the idea that Epstein is a boring and unimportant and dumb story, as Trump has said, but the name of the football team in Washington isn't boring, dumb, or unimportant. I mean, that's the problem.”
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From the July 23, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): OK. So, and this was, like, on Sunday, getting into the week, they're talking about this. Now I don't think this is going to happen. They — they're not going to change it back to Redskins. Like, that's just — it's not gonna happen. It just won't.
And I will say — you know, I have to say to start with that, look, this whole thing does strike me as a pretty unsubtle attempt to change the subject. OK? It is hard for me to stomach the idea that Epstein is a boring and unimportant and dumb story, as Trump has said, but the name of the football team in Washington isn't boring, dumb, or unimportant. I mean, that's the problem. You can't come out and say this is totally ridiculous. Why are we talking about this? It doesn't matter. And then a few days later, launch into a series — like, spend a a day talking about the name of the football team in Washington. How in the world is that important enough to require the president of the United States to not only speak out about it, but to get involved actively? So that's important enough for that, but not the Epstein files? Like, that doesn't make any sense.
So when critics claim that this pivot to the Redskins is kind of a ploy to change the subject, yeah, I think it is. Just being honest, and I know it's gonna annoy some of you that I'm saying that, even though you know I'm right. It's going to annoy you because, like, yeah. Yeah. But be a team player. Don't we all know that, of course, that's what he's doing, but don't say it out loud.
But I don't — that's a game I don't play. I don't — I'll say out loud whatever happen to think about a subject, and I'm not going to worry about, well, we don't want to say that because we got to think about the strategy. I'll fully admit I'm not as worried about strategy. I'm just going to tell you what I think. Right? That's because that's what I consider my job to be. And so in this case, yeah, this is, very clearly an unsubtle attempt to change the subject and, kinda clunky and clumsy and it doesn't work and it's too transparent. You know? So just, like, strategically, it doesn't work anyway. And I don't even think we should change the subject because I think that the subject — the Epstein subject is important.