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.

President Trump isn't kidding around with his new threat to the NFL's Washington Commanders, the White House says.

President Donald Trump called on the owners of NFL and MLB teams to go back to their old names and "GET IT DONE."

Trump threatened on Sunday to hold up a stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not change its name back to the Washington Redskins. He also urged Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its previous name, noting that there was a “big clamoring” for both name changes.

Donald Trump has been facing severe backlash over his handling of Epstein files, and he has been doing everything in his power to divert public attention away from the controversy. He has tried to dissuade his base directly by asking them not to post or talk about the Epstein files,

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.

Residents had some strong opinions about President Donald Trump's most-recent insertion into the Washington Commanders' attempt to return to D.C.

Former Washington star Jason Buck would love to see his old team get its prior moniker back ... and he tells TMZ Sports he'd "give anything" to sit down with Donald Trump to try to ensure it happens.