Donald Trump, Washington Commanders and NFL
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Taylor Lewan thinks it's funny that Donald Trump is threatening the Washington Commanders to go back to their old, offensive 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.
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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.
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.
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.
When the president urged the Washington Commanders to revert to their old nickname, it marked a renewal of hostilities with America’s most popular sports league.