Washington, D.C., Council Chairman Phil Mendelson suggested he would have no issue with the Washington Commanders using the Redskins nickname again.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.