Commanders, Donald Trump and football
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President Trump can't unilaterally block a stadium deal for the Washington Commanders to return to DC. But he has ways he can try to intervene.
A day after Donald Trump threatened to hold up a deal for a new football stadium in the nation's capital if the Washington Commanders did not go back to the name Redskins, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president's comments were not a joke.
There’s one big flaw in President Donald Trump’s threat to hold up a deal for the NFL’s Washington Commanders to build a new stadium unless the team changes its name.
Native American groups had fought for years to get Washington's NFL team to change its name. Trump just renewed the battle.
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This time, the president is insisting that Washington’s NFL team change its name from the Commanders back to the Redskins, a name that was considered offensive to Native Americans.
Trump demanded that the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians revert to their old names in a series of posts on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Residents had some strong opinions about President Donald Trump's most-recent insertion into the Washington Commanders' attempt to return to D.C.