Donald Trump Does Racist ‘Tomahawk Chop’ Gesture At World Series

Last week, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred insisted that regional Native Americans support the chop, which several Native American representatives quickly refuted.

Donald and Melania Trump took part in the contentious “tomahawk chop” cheer for the Atlanta Braves in Game 4 of the World Series on Saturday night against the Houston Astros.

While many fans enthusiastically join in the cheer that is meant to evoke chopping with a “tomahawk,” Native Americans generally regard it as racist and demeaning.

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Several spectators can be seen in the video of Donald Trump and the first lady doing “the chop,” and a slew of Braves fans on Twitter erupted in laughter.

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ryan Helsley, a Cherokee Nation member, complained after a game against the Braves in 2019 that the team’s tomahawk chop cheer portrays Native Americans as “caveman-type people.”

“They are a lot more than that,” Helsley told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Appropriating Native American names for something unconnected to their culture “devalues us and how we’re perceived in that way, or used as mascots,” he said.

Last week, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred insisted that regional Native Americans support the chop, which several Native American representatives quickly refuted.

The National Congress of American Indians issued a statement on Wednesday urging Fox not to broadcast the chop during this weekend’s World Series games.

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The Atlanta Braves told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late last year that they were sticking by their controversial name, despite the fact that a number of teams have dropped Native American terms and slurs from their names because they are now considered racist.

However, Braves officials stated at the time that they were still debating the contentious chop chant, which fans repeat at the start of games and as a rallying cry.

Donald Trump attended Game 5 of the World Series for the first time since October 2019 at Washington’s Nationals Park. When he was shown on the stadium’s video board that evening.

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