Social media detectives uncovered a 12-year-old tweet from President Donald Trump about the “Washington Redskins” team name, and let’s just say it aged like milk. On Sunday, news broke that President Donald Trump had threatened to hold up the Washington Commanders’ push for a new stadium if they didn’t go back to the “Redskins” team

Donald Trump is threatening to spike the Washington Commanders' stadium deal if the team doesn't change its name back to the Redskins.

President Trump can't unilaterally block a stadium deal for the Washington Commanders to return to DC. But he has ways he can try to intervene.

President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a stadium deal for Washington's football team if it doesn't restore its old name.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.

Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland's baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a “big clamoring for this" as well. The Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians have had their current names since the 2022 seasons and both have said they have no plans to change them back.

The Washington Commanders are one of the most storied franchises in the NFL. Trump wrote that there is a "big clamoring" for the team to be renamed the "Washington Redskins Football Team." Trump has his own history with the NFL after showing interest in buying a team during the 1980s,

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

"Let me be clear, we're on the 1-yard line and it's time to get over the line," Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said

President Donald Trump made a fiery call for the Washington Commanders to restore the Redskins name — which it left behind in 2020. The post Trump Calls for the Washington Commanders to Change Their Name Back to Redskins in Fiery Post: ‘Our Great Indian