For years, the Washington Commanders’ name has been a controversial subject. Some support the name change, while others argue that it goes against the team’s identity. President Donald Trump is part of the latter group,

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

Donald Trump is facing criticism for demanding the Washington Commanders revert to their former name, Redskins, a term widely considered a racial slur. This stance is hypocritical, given his 2013 tweet criticizing Barack Obama for similar commentary.

Washington’s NFL team name change: What you need to know. Washington’s NFL team revealed that it will be the Commanders, a tribute to Washington’s military ties.

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.

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.

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.

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.