Washington’s NFL franchise used to be in the news all the time for reasons other than football. That seemed to have changed under new team ownership, but President Donald Trump’s remarks about the team name and possibly holding up a stadium deal are making waves just as training camp opens.

President Trump has reignited the debate over the Washington Commanders team name, the latest example of the president using sports in his second term to expand his influence and impact on

There are a couple of reasons why changing team names back probably won’t happen: It would damage brand equity and signal indecision, a marketing consultant says. But the Cleveland Guardians and Washington Commanders are in two different situations.

A day after Donald Trump threatened to hold up a deal for a new football stadium in the nation's capital if the Washington Commanders did not go back to the name Redskins, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president's comments were not a joke.

Trump insisting that Washington's NFL team change its name from the Commanders back to the Redskins, a name that was considered offensive to Native Americans.

President Donald Trump may be all on board for having the Washington Commanders revert their team name, but the D.C. mayor and the team's GM are paying him no mind.

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

Trump demanded that the Washington Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians revert to their old names in a series of posts on his social media platform, Truth Social.