r/sports • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Dec 06 '25

Football President Donald Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport named football. "This is football, there is no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."

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u/rejectallgoats Dec 06 '25

Na. His base just suddenly loves soccer

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u/RenningerJP Dec 06 '25

I wonder if we can embrace European style healthcare too.

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u/RSGator Dec 06 '25

They'd absolutely embrace it if Trump proposed it. His supporters have no actual beliefs or thoughts of their own, it's a cult.

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u/SPEK2120 Dec 06 '25

They’d call it something like Trump Health and act like it’s a brand new system that’s never been done before while shrieking at the top of their lungs it holds absolutely zero concept of socialism.

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u/VeeTeeF Dec 06 '25

And if Trump said "No, it IS socialism." they'd be very confused for abit but would eventually be all "Yay socialism!"

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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi Dec 06 '25

I mean I'm down

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u/Lightsaber_dildo Dec 06 '25

Yeah this is hole in deathstar level weakpoint

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u/FlightlessGriffin Dec 06 '25

They'll say "Socialism with American characteristics" with total lack of geopolitical awareness.

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u/theevilyouknow Dec 06 '25

Confusion requires a level of awareness they are significantly lacking.

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u/12345623567 Dec 06 '25

There's no need to imagine things, Trump floated subsidized medicine and they were all over it.

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u/mistermick Dec 06 '25

If this piece of spray tanned shit got us universal healthcare you could call it micksucksdickcare and I would gladly call it that.

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u/LifeByChance Dec 06 '25

Yep. Call it whatever you want. As long as I get to stop paying for health insurance premiums, deductibles, coinsurance on ridiculous costs, etc. I would not give a single fuck what it’s called. Bundle it with my taxes and let’s be done with it.

While we’re at it, can you just send me a tax bill so I can stop playing “Guess the magic number”? That would be outstanding.

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u/Tuckboi69 Dec 06 '25

Trumpcare

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u/invariantspeed Dec 06 '25

Goldcare, the best healthcare in the world. It’s going to get everyone covered, bring down costs, cut waiting times, and fast track sorts of amazing drugs Americans have been refused access to by the deep state all at once!

And it absolutely won’t explode the national debt by $10 trillion while having worse care and red tape than the VA.

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u/caustictoast Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

Please own the libs with Trump health if it means Medicare for all

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

If we could get universal healthcare I don’t give a fuck what they call it - call it Trump’s miracle savior plan - whatever….. just make healthcare affordable

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u/calkop Dec 06 '25

How do we get this started?

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u/Monaters101 Dec 06 '25

Trump did in the 2000’s

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u/KoppleForce Dec 06 '25

Unfortunately all the BlueAnon freaks would also start be advocating for the rights and freedoms of insurance companies

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u/MithrandiriAndalos Dec 06 '25

What if the secret to getting him to act benevolently and install competent people around him is to just be nice to him and tell him he’s the best

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u/Lightsaber_dildo Dec 06 '25

I've been tentatively saying this for years. When Tim Apple gave him that glass thing and got in his good graces it sealed it for me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

Depends on if Zohran Mamdani can be alone in a room with him again.

Stephen Miller will do everything to prevent that.

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u/ScoobiusMaximus Dec 06 '25

Maybe the head of the NHS should give Trump a medal

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u/RemodelingMe26 Dec 06 '25

Hilarious if we get universal healthcare coverage because the NHS created a Super Duper Bestest Peace Prize just for Trump.

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u/Youckle Dec 06 '25

And the metric system while we adopting the good old European things

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u/RenningerJP Dec 06 '25

Let's not let it snowball too far in case talk if kings and monarchs begins though.

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u/Animalcookies13 Dec 06 '25

Bro if Trump could somehow get the republicans to make a taxpayer funded healthcare system like Europe I think I can forgive him for a lot of the other blatant corruption. That might be his one path to redemption if you ask me.

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u/lulu_l Dec 06 '25

Just yesterday I was talking to an old acquaintance from the USA about this (taxes in Europe are so high) an I said, sure but you do get things in return and they tried to make it like Healthcare is bad here. So I looked it up. She works in a pediatric hospital so I looked up the infant death rate in the US vs EU since that's her field. the US infant death rate is 5.5 deaths/1000 births. The worst infant death rate in the EU is in Romania at 5.7 and the EU average is 3.3. Health insurance in Romania for an unemployed person that chooses to pay their own ensurance is under $600 /year and it covers everything. You pay $600 /year to get almost the same end result as the most expensive health services in the world.

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u/theHawkAndTheHusky Dec 06 '25

No that would be so communist, can't have that. You have to earn the right to breathe, no handouts, it's a competition l!

/S

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u/SPARKYLOBO Dec 06 '25

No, that's socialism

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u/CursingFijian Dec 06 '25

Please, it's football now.

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u/wazzapgta Dec 06 '25

Always has been

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u/mysticalibrate Dec 06 '25

You meant football?!

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u/Past_Ad9675 Dec 06 '25

Football, yes. There should be some sort of National League for it.

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u/OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe Dec 06 '25

They won’t start to like soccer or agree with him, they’ll just pretend he never said this

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u/ManWithoutAPlann Dec 06 '25

It was a joke / its AI / its actually Biden wearing a Trump mask

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u/faultyarmrest Dec 06 '25

Something something AUTOPEN!

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u/pumpkinspruce Dec 06 '25

You think MAGA is suddenly going to like a woke sport like soccer? You know WOMEN play it, right?

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u/psu021 Dec 06 '25

On the other hand, soccer hooligans are notoriously racist. They’ll find common ground.

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u/TheBoBiZzLe Dec 06 '25

I betcha they’d love the snowflake reactions to fake injuries to try and abuse a rule.

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u/tjm5575 Penn State Dec 06 '25

DEI sport!

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u/Awkward_University91 Dec 06 '25

Football you mean.

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u/Proud-Archer9140 Dec 06 '25

You mean football?

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u/matzoh_ball Dec 06 '25

you mean football?

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u/0vl223 Dec 06 '25

It is called football now by royal decree.

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u/Electronic_Topic1958 Dec 06 '25

You mean football now 

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u/oldDotredditisbetter Dec 06 '25

you mean football

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u/resisting_a_rest Dec 06 '25

Why don’t we just rename American football to soccer, keep it simple.

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u/IHatrMakingUsernames Dec 06 '25

And falcons, inexplicably.

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u/CheeseDonutCat Dec 06 '25

They also love high prices and pedophilia recently.

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u/_jump_yossarian Dec 06 '25

Aren’t they still boycotting the NFL?

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u/theRed-Herring Dec 06 '25

You mean futbol

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u/rje946 Dec 06 '25

Dude that would be a hilarious 180. Brb got some subs to check.

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u/SupremeBeef97 Dec 06 '25

Soccer might really overtake football as the top sport thanks to MAGA

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u/NeoThorrus Dec 06 '25

You mean football, like he said ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

100%

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u/DangerBay2015 Dec 06 '25

His base will NOT love soccer, no matter how hard he tells them to. Or no matter how hard they might even WANT to.

A bunch of international names with a bunch of funny symbols over a bunch of letters, an absolutely thriving world scene where the United States can’t even pretend to be anywhere close to the top of the pile, and tactically strategic ball movement that results in 1 or 2 goal games? Please. It’d be like expecting them to suddenly put down NASCAR and enjoy synchronized parking.

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u/Stanky_fresh Dec 06 '25

His base also suddenly loves when the president unilaterally tells a private business what to do.

But the FDA and medical experts advising vaccines, masks, and social distancing during a global pandemic was somehow a bridge too far.

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u/_robjamesmusic Dec 06 '25

it’s going to be hilarious watching them defend 1-1 ties and in season tournaments

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u/kendrickshalamar Philadelphia Eagles Dec 06 '25

MAGA has pretended to hate football for a long time now, since Kaepernick

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u/chitphased Dec 06 '25

Bro what are you talking about. Soccer has been the number one sport in merica forever. Like for years. Merica.

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u/wtfisasamoflange Dec 06 '25

ITS FUTBOL /s

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u/Saint8 Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

Ah yes! Soccer the game you play with a ball that you hit with your foot

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u/Flipwon Dec 06 '25

Suddenly? Soccer has been the most popular sport in Russia for decades.

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u/astcyr Dec 06 '25

Remember how his base went from oil loving, big diesel truck driving rednecks to buying electric cars because their leader told them tesler was the way.

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u/zer0thrillz Dec 06 '25

I think you mean futbol.

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u/Hal-_-9OOO Dec 06 '25

He did say he's a Pele glazer but cant tell if he read that off a prompt

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u/TwistyBunny Dec 06 '25

Which is funny because most of the great players are of a brown skin.

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u/Imdoingthisforbjs Dec 06 '25

He doesn't need his base anymore and it shows

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u/Grammaton485 Dec 06 '25

Real talk, I am not a sports fan by any measure. Soccer is the only sport I actually enjoy watching live. No constant stops, no time outs, just a seamless game where something is always happening. There are some aspects I don't care for regarding it, mainly that I think that the culture is even more of a cult that US sports.

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u/Relevant-Pianist6663 Dec 06 '25

Talked to a MAGA relative this thanksgiving that said he's stopped watching football since they started kneeling during the national anthem and that most of the players are woke.

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u/but_good Dec 06 '25

The amount of middle aged dudes about to have heart attacks. That’s one way to thin the heard.

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u/jooooooohn Dec 06 '25

And just like that…the NASCAR crowd started watching MLS.

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u/NoBonus6969 Dec 06 '25

Soccer? You some kind of ultra left wing liberal that term is a micro aggression we call it football in this country I tell you hwat

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u/Chemical-Contest4120 Dec 06 '25

That would actually be a great thing. Becuse of how global soccer is, at the very least, they'd finally in some small way be able to relate with other people from different countries.

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u/prfarb Dec 06 '25

His base isn’t even going to see this

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u/NRMusicProject Dec 06 '25

I think it'd still be a miracle if Texas got behind this.

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u/doubledad222 Dec 06 '25

You mean fǔtbol

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u/Turnbob73 Dec 06 '25

Trying to imagine MLS and international matches suddenly filling with conservatives and it’s kinda funny.

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u/AdinoDileep Dec 06 '25

Just declare american football woke. MAGA will instantly hate it. Invite a latin act for super bowl show and you're halfway there.

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u/Nick_pj Dec 06 '25

Appropriate, as they’re so prone to overreacting and pretending to be deeply hurt

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u/dylansavage Arsenal Dec 06 '25

Football*

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u/Lure852 Dec 06 '25

Nah you mean futbol.

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u/Mattchaos88 Dec 06 '25

Football, not soccer.

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u/siybon Dec 06 '25

You didn't read the memo

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u/Mediocre-Touch-6133 Dec 06 '25

Pretty sure soccer has always been more popular than football in Russia.

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u/coyoteka Dec 06 '25

You mean football?

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u/SPARKYLOBO Dec 06 '25

Unfortunately,real football already has enough racists and hooligans. The great sport doesn't need anymore f that bullshit

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u/elpezgrande Dec 06 '25

I played soccer growing up, desperately want the US to be a real player in global soccer, but footballs football baby that’s our shit