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demmiblue

(38,941 posts)
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:36 PM Saturday

Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him

President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.

A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders' ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the domed stadium in the nation's capital bear his name. The new stadium is being built on the old RFK Stadium site that served as the team's home from 1961 to 1996.

"That would be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN on Friday night via email.

Leavitt declined to answer additional questions, but the senior White House source told ESPN: "It's what the president wants, and it will probably happen."

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46892115/trump-wants-commanders-stadium-named-him


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Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him (Original Post) demmiblue Saturday OP
Name the porta-johns on site after him........... MyOwnPeace Saturday #1
Pedophile Potties? nt HappyH Saturday #13
Pedo-potties biophile Saturday #26
They must be selling too many tickets. Turbineguy Saturday #2
At least the Reagan-naming orgy mostly waited until he was dead. Ocelot II Saturday #3
Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center did wonders for their ticket sales, didn't it? Ocelot II Saturday #4
I was just reading about the Ig-Nobel Prize. Rigged, obviously, since Trump did not win. Midnight Writer Saturday #5
Why would the Commanders markodochartaigh Saturday #6
Somehow, piddyprints Saturday #7
Apologies extended........ MyOwnPeace Saturday #25
Posthumously UT_democrat Saturday #8
+1 If we tell him that, maybe he'll...? leftstreet Saturday #15
SO he's willing to pay $700 million over the next 20 years for his name to be on the stadium? Wiz Imp Saturday #9
Sorry, but GET REAL! MyOwnPeace Saturday #27
Its going to smell like urine from eveyone pissing on it. Historic NY Saturday #32
Why not change the name of the team while they're at it. C_U_L8R Saturday #10
Oh, THAT is BRILLIANT!!!!! MyOwnPeace Saturday #28
Welp, there goes the Bloated Egomaniac again. Pfffttt. electric_blue68 Saturday #11
Trump did what? edhopper Saturday #12
His regime lied, as they do, day-in, day-out, without consequence or pushback by our intrepid M$M AZJonnie Saturday #14
Fat Fuck Field Blue Owl Saturday #16
Now THAT is FUNNY!!!! PCIntern Saturday #17
Just be patient, Donald. tanyev Saturday #18
Put it on a big sign, right out front..... in pencil. Norrrm Saturday #19
NO!!! MyOwnPeace Saturday #29
Dick Tater Stadium GoodRaisin Saturday #20
Tax money going to fund billionaire's stadiums is a true con job SamuelTheThird Saturday #21
Governor Newsom has some great suggestions for other things to be named after trump LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #22
Pedophile Park Kid Berwyn Saturday #23
Sure Donny, you have to pay for it Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday #24
You know he'll file suit........ MyOwnPeace Saturday #30
Epstein Stadium Historic NY Saturday #31
MaddowBlog-Trump finds something else he wants to slap his name on: a football stadium in D.C. LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #33
Despot Stadium? Ars Longa Tuesday #34

MyOwnPeace

(17,411 posts)
1. Name the porta-johns on site after him...........
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:41 PM
Saturday

while the construction is taking place. That way tons of union workers will be able to p**s on him daily!

Ocelot II

(128,249 posts)
3. At least the Reagan-naming orgy mostly waited until he was dead.
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:43 PM
Saturday

Although in this case that might be an acceptable trade-off.

Midnight Writer

(24,979 posts)
5. I was just reading about the Ig-Nobel Prize. Rigged, obviously, since Trump did not win.
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:45 PM
Saturday

But for Psychiatry this year, the Award went to a study of narcissistic personality disorder.

The study proved that if you praise and compliment a narcissist, his narcissistic personality disorder will get worse and worse. If you pepper a narcissist with constant praise, his personality disorder will become epic.

Duh.

Trump is a case study in narcissism. And his sycophantic cult is making his condition shoot into the stratosphere.

Wiz Imp

(8,081 posts)
9. SO he's willing to pay $700 million over the next 20 years for his name to be on the stadium?
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:13 PM
Saturday

Because that's the going rate.

The record for the largest naming rights payment belongs to the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. On 17 November 2021, a 20-year, US$700 million sponsorship deal was reached between Anschutz Entertainment Group and Singapore-based Crypto.com to rename the Staples Center.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_rights

If we limit it to NFL stadiums, it would still cost him at least $400 million over 20 years.

https://doisz.com/en/blog/naming-rights-na-nfl/
Major naming rights contracts in the NFL include:
SoFi Stadium: $400 million over 20 years
Allegiant Stadium: $25 million per year
Mercedes-Benz Stadium: $324 million over 27 years


MyOwnPeace

(17,411 posts)
27. Sorry, but GET REAL!
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 07:12 PM
Saturday

You KNOW we owe that to him for all of the 'pain and anguish' we've inflicted on him just because he's a lying, thieving, cheating, evil, hateful, obnoxious, ignorant, vicious, incompetent, delusional son-of-a-bitch.

I'm sure the Congressional Repuglicans, Supreme Court, and DOJ will agree with all of that.

C_U_L8R

(48,521 posts)
10. Why not change the name of the team while they're at it.
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:14 PM
Saturday

Donald’s Li’l Ball Handlers. Tangerine uniforms with gold epaulettes and rococo embroidery. Fake grass and hackable yardage markers. Sumptuous Liberaccian Emperor’s balcony where Il Douche can throw intellectuals, foreigners, retirees and the poor to crocodiles and lions to the cheers of the magat infestation.

edhopper

(36,835 posts)
12. Trump did what?
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:21 PM
Saturday

On July 27, 2023, the United States Congress introduced the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act (H.R. 4984), which proposed transferring control to the DC city government through a 99-year lease and permitting mixed-use development. The act was passed by the House of Representatives on February 28, 2024,[7] passed by the Senate on December 21,[8] and signed into law by president Joe Biden on January 6, 2025.

AZJonnie

(2,250 posts)
14. His regime lied, as they do, day-in, day-out, without consequence or pushback by our intrepid M$M
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:35 PM
Saturday

She probably means Mango Mussolini threatened to defund the whole thing, but then the ownership donated $5 to his campaign, so he decided not to defund it, something like that.

Ergo, Trump "made it possible".

tanyev

(48,279 posts)
18. Just be patient, Donald.
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 01:51 PM
Saturday

If your jeenyus redistricting plan goes like we hope it will, we will gladly name it The 2026 President Donald J. Trump Dummymander.

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,486 posts)
22. Governor Newsom has some great suggestions for other things to be named after trump
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 02:51 PM
Saturday

Newsom has some great suggestions



I PROPOSE WE NAME MORE PLACES AFTER DONALD. RIKERS ISLAND SHALL BE "THE TRUMP FAMILY RETREAT." HIS BALLROOM: "DONNY'S MINIATURE MUSEUM OF MANHOOD." EPSTEIN ISLAND: "THE DONNY ALL-INCLUSIVE." LANDFILLS: "TRUMP'S AROMA GARDENS." SYPHILIS WILL NOW BE CALLED, "YOU'VE GOT DONALD."

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,486 posts)
33. MaddowBlog-Trump finds something else he wants to slap his name on: a football stadium in D.C.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 10:58 AM
Tuesday

It’s not surprising Trump is lobbying to have a football stadium named after him; it’s surprising that it took so long for this news to reach the public.

As Trump lobbies for a football stadium to bear his name, I’m reminded of something he said six years ago at a tour of Mt. Vernon:

“If [George Washington] was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-10T20:16:22.507Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-finds-something-else-wants-slap-name-football-stadium-dc-rcna243072

Six years later, it’s unsettling how often we’re reminded that Trump wasn’t kidding. ESPN reported over the weekend:

President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders’ ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump’s desire to have the domed stadium in the nation’s capital bear his name. The new stadium is being built on the old RFK Stadium site that served as the team’s home from 1961 to 1996.


Soon after, other news organizations published related reports, including The Associated Press and The New York Times. For its part, the White House made little effort to deny the story: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, in response to inquiries, “That would surely be a beautiful name.”....

It’s not surprising, then, that Trump is lobbying to have a football stadium named after himself; it’s surprising that it took so long for this news to reach the public.

“You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you.”....

I’m not in a position to say with any confidence whether the president will get his wish on any of these fronts, but his efforts are a timely reminder to those who might’ve forgotten: Trump’s principal focus is self-aggrandizement and self-glorification, not governing.
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