"He suggested the past DC opposition of the team moving back into the city while named Redskins had more to do with Dan Snyder than the name," radio host Grant Paulsen wrote about Mendelson.

President Donald Trump’s remarks about the team name and possibly holding up a stadium deal are making waves just as training camp opens.

There’s precisely one group in the District of Columbia that is happy about President Donald Trump’s demand that the Washington Commanders revert to the name “Redskins”: The progressive activists who...