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Washington Football Team deletes tweet mocking President Donald Trump

jack baer
Staff writer
·2 min read

Even at 4-7 and on their third starting quarterback, it’s a fun time to be the Washington Football Team.

It beat its rival Dallas on Thanksgiving, demolishing the Cowboys 41-16. It even used a fumblerooski to do it. That all adds up to an improbable lead in the comically putrid NFC East.

So, in the aftermath of Thursday’s win, the person in charge of Washington’s Twitter account decided to have a little fun with the team’s division lead. Attaching a screenshot of the NFC East standings, Washington tweeted “STOP THE COUNT!”

Hours later, the tweet was deleted.

Washington’s since-deleted Trump joke

It doesn’t take a keen political observer to understand just what Washington was referring to with its tweet, nor does it take a seasoned NFL observer to assume why the team took it down.

LANDOVER, MD - OCTOBER 25: The helmet of Jon Bostic #53 of the Washington Football Team is seen on the sidelines during the second half of the game against the Dallas Cowboys at FedExField on October 25, 2020 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)
Washington won big against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

Earlier this month, “Stop the count!” became a popular refrain for President Donald Trump and his supporters as multiple swing states tried to count legally cast votes. While Trump held leads in the official ballot counts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia as the traditional Election Night ended, those counts included a disproportionately low amount of votes from overwhelmingly Democratic cities as well as mail-in votes that also skewed left.

Because counting those remaining ballots — which, again, were cast legally — was slowly chipping away at Trump’s chances of re-election, Trump started demanding that the ballots stop being counted. Just like a football team would want to stop playing games if it suddenly held an improbable division lead.

Trump’s team has since filed multiple lawsuits and legal challenges to either stop the count or throw out legal votes, nearly every single of which has gone nowhere in court. Joe Biden remains the President-elect, and Trump has said he will indeed leave office if the Electoral College votes him out on Dec. 14.

Given that the NFL tries to avoid nearly any unnecessary foray into politics, you can imagine that Washington’s higher-ups didn’t appreciate a tweet mocking an outgoing president.

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