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,’” the president said.

Native American groups had fought for years to get Washington's NFL team to change its name. Trump just renewed the battle.

Trump has threatened to hold up a new stadium for the Washington Commanders unless they revert back to the Redskins name.

WASHINGTON, N.D. (KUMV) - Montana Senator Steve Daines wants the old Washington NFL football team image back in the public eye. This comes as President Donald Trump calls for the Washington Commanders to revert to the former Redskins name. Daines says while the president is working on a name change, he’s working on the logo change.

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.

During the union's summit in February, Howell, two union employees, and some players racked up $2,426 in expenses at an Atlanta strip club.

MLB’s Cleveland Guardians and the NFL’s Washington Commanders have both indicated they have no plans to go back to names that were abandoned in the aftermath of a reckoning over racial injustice, iconography and racism in the U.

The team left Washington for Landover, Maryland, in 1997, but DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and the team announced a deal in April to bring the Commanders back to D.C. at the site of the old Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. Trump supported the deal at the time, but the proposal is stalled before the DC Council.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser did a deal with the Commanders to build a new facility at the site of RFK Stadium. On Sunday, President Donald Trump demanded that the Commanders restore their abandoned name — and then he said he may condition the deal on the name being changed.