President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name, which was considered offensive to Native Americans.

There’s precisely one group in the District of Columbia that is happy about President Donald Trump’s demand that the Washington Commanders revert to the name “Redskins”: The progressive activists who want to kill the plan to build the franchise a shiny new stadium.

There was some speculation that Trump is using the issue to distract attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files, and whether he was implicated in them.

"Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them," he said in a Sunday morning post on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump has called for Washington's football team and Cleveland's baseball team to return to their previous names