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The Real Americans is a professional wrestling tag team in the WWE, consisting of Antonio Cesaro and Jack Swagger. The team is Managed by Zeb Colter

Background
On February 11, 2013, Mantel returned to WWE under the name of Zeb Colter, as the manager of Jack Swagger. Colter's character was that of a racist and xenophobic heel who strongly advocated anti-immigrant beliefs. On February 19, Fox News and various right-wing commentators including Glenn Beck claimed that Swagger and Colter's characters were a mockery of the Tea Party movement meant to "demonize" the Tea Party. WWE responded to the criticism by stating that they were incorporating "current events into [their] storylines" to "create compelling and relevant content for [their] audience" and that "this storyline in no way represents WWE’s political point of view". WWE followed by having Swagger and Colter break character during a video to invite Beck to appear on Raw while justifying that the storyline was designed to elicit a crowd response for the protagonist, Alberto Del Rio, and the antagonists, Swagger and Colter. Beck rejected the invitation. On the March 1 episode of Raw, Colter challenged Del Rio to a match, but as soon as the match started, both Swagger and Colter attacked Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez, resulting in Colter losing by disqualification. On the April 8 episode of Raw, Colter teamed with Swagger in a Handicap match against Del Rio, though Colter never officially entered the ring, they were defeated by Del Rio by submission on Swagger. On the April 29 episode of Raw, Colter was involved in a triple-threat match with Rodriguez and Big E Langston (representing Dolph Ziggler), with the winner being able to determine the stipulation for the World Heavyweight Championship match at Extreme Rules. Colter lost the match after being pinned by Rodriguez. On the June 17th episode of Raw, after Jack Swagger suffered a hand injury, and a court appearance, Coulter aligned himself with Antonio Cesaro who after defeating William Regal then Sin Cara and covered them in a Gadsden flag.