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,

Study shows that 90% of Native Americans aren't offended by the Redskins and fine with the Washington Commanders changing it back.

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.

President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated his call for the Washington Commanders to change their name back to the “Redskins,” threatening to restrict the NFL team’s stadium deal if they don’t, though it’s unclear how he would be able to.

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.