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.

Scott Turner, the HUD secretary and former Washington Redskins defensive back, backed President Donald Trump's push to change the Commanders' nickname.

Chris Antonetti, a Connecticut native and the team's president of baseball operations, responded on Sunday after Trump posted on his Truth Social site that the Cleveland should revert back to the Indians' nickname and that that Washington Commanders should return to the original Redskins' nickname.

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.