Trump threatens Washington stadium deal unless NFL team readopts Redskins name

[In It to Win It]

Trying to draw attention away from Epstein.

July 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.

The American football team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the U.S. genocide of the Indigenous population.

Trump had called for a return to the name Redskins - and for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team to once again adopt the name Indians - on other occasions, but on Sunday he added that he may take official action.

"I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original 'Washington Redskins,' and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, 'Washington Commanders,' I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/trump-threatens-washington-stadium-deal-unless-nfl-team-readopts-redskins-name-2025-07-20/

[Pachamama]

1. A devils deal

[generalbetrayus]

2. Our Commander-in-Chief doesn't like the name Commanders?

How about renaming them the Orangeskins in his honor?

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Always laser-focused on meaningful issues, that's our Taco-in-Chief!

Next up: An EO (Emperor's Order) that all toilets in the US be retrofitted to enable no less than a 35GPS (Gallons per Second) flush rate, along with a disclaimer that the government is not responsible for the sucking-away of toiletries, pets, or small children.

[Raine]

4. OK Orange Skin. 🤪 nt

[Hornedfrog2000]

5. Anything to distract

From the fact donald j trump is a raging pedophile

[Wanderlust988]

6. All they have to do just blow up the deal and move to Virginia like they wanted to at first n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Was it raining so he couldn't play golf??

[Figarosmom]

8. F him 🖕

He's really full of himself.

[IzzaNuDay]

11. I like how you think.

F Dementia Donny and F Vance!

[allegorical oracle]

18. Yep. King Donald is in charge -- his word is the world's order. Disgusting. nt

[Grim Chieftain]

9. Is there nothing he won't poke his greasy orange bloated nose into?

He thinks his opinion on anything and everything matters. Lord, what a pathetic excuse for a human being.

[appleannie1]

10. All they have to do is cross a bridge to no longer be in DC. Their fans would cross the same bridge to see them.

[canetoad]

12. So why the fuck

Are people not standing up to him? Why are his petty, recists demands taken seriously?

[Celerity]

13. people are afraid of getting the cosh

[canetoad]

14. I've never lived

Under a regime such as the US is now suffering. Being Brit born with Brit pragmaticism I've always experienced reasonably fair government.

So we're talking about citizens of the "Land of the Free" being scared of violence, injury and death from their own government because of their political views?

That to me would prompt a revolution.

[Celerity]

16. I see little possibilities of wide-ranging kinetic resistance of Trump's burgeoning dictatorship atm.

Most Americans either simply do not care remotely enough to reach that level atm or they are, to some degree, pro Trump as a tyrant.

Will that change? I have no really solid predictions as to that.

[Irish_Dem]

15. He doesn't care about the name. He just wants to torment, torture, control others.

Trump is drunk with power.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. '(The Felon) has limited authority

to intervene under the current home-rule law governing federal oversight of the District of Columbia, but he has raised the prospect of taking more control, telling reporters in February, "I think we should take over Washington, D.C."

For starters.

[Paladin]

19. Just another extortion attempt by this filthy administration. (nt)

[Vinca]

20. Maybe they could appease him by calling the team the Washington Manbabies.

WTF? Doesn't this guy have more important things to do like mull over plastic straws or water pressure in the shower?

[tanyev]

21. How is that any of your GD business, President DRUMPF?

[Beringia]

22. Badges, we don't need no stinking badges line from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart

Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges! Alfonso Bedoya, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

[Johonny]

23. The Washington Trump Knew Epstein