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

The Commanders and the NFL have kept their heads low and their mouths shut regarding President Trump’s weekend one-two punch against the team’s name. The team and the league could be hoping that he wasn’t serious, and that perhaps he was trying to get people talking about something other than what they have been talking about.

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.

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.

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.

Former NFL player Jason Buck joins 'Fox & Friends' to weigh in on President Donald Trump urging the Washington Commanders to change their name back to the Redskins.

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.