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underpants

(193,868 posts)
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 02:46 PM Saturday

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

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 decision would likely rest with the District of Columbia Council, which will lease the stadium to the Commanders, and the National Park Service, which manages the federal government land on the old RFK Stadium site where the new stadium will be built in time for its scheduled opening in 2030.

"The team doesn't have the authority. They can't name the stadium ... on their own," the source said. "The city would be involved in that decision, and the Park Service would be involved."

"He has cards to play. He can make it very difficult, through government environmental approvals and other things, to make sure everyone who wants this stadium to be built will join to put his name on it," the source said. "Trump has plenty of cards to play to get his way."

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45783141/trump-calls-commanders-guardians-reverse-name-changes

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ESPN - Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him (Original Post) underpants Saturday OP
Gavin Newsom has some great suggestions for other places to be named after trump LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #1
That's a parody account (nt) AZJonnie Saturday #16
Don't most of these stadium charge naming rights? It's a lot of dosh. Raftergirl Saturday #2
Not surprising, he wants it for free underpants Saturday #7
A toxic waste dump would be perfect. Dave Bowman Saturday #3
Rapey McFraud stadium. underpants Saturday #6
Sleepy Don Stadium? bucolic_frolic Saturday #4
I don't the fans would put up with naming it SHIT FOR BRAINS STADIUM! cornball 24 Saturday #5
Why not just name the team after him? newdeal2 Saturday #8
The Orange Bowl? nt Gore1FL Saturday #9
Stealing. underpants Saturday #15
LOLZ. Pathetic, isn't it? B.See Saturday #10
He is GENUINELY becoming aware of his mortality. He fears death. GOOD!! QueerDuck Saturday #11
Here.... a kennedy Saturday #12
Putin's Palace Kid Berwyn Saturday #13
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Saturday #14
NFL should take heed, otherwise he's going to start up his own football league and put the NFL out of business AZJonnie Saturday #17
MaddowBlog-Trump finds something else he wants to slap his name on: a football stadium in D.C. LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #18
Trump is in the Epstein Files Stadium Johonny Tuesday #19

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. Gavin Newsom has some great suggestions for other places to be named after trump
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 02:47 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."

underpants

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7. Not surprising, he wants it for free
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 03:10 PM
Saturday

The source with knowledge of Trump's wishes said the president doesn't want to buy the name or have a deep-pocketed corporate sponsor buy the name for him. He wants the Commanders' stadium to be named after him, similar to Lambeau Field, as a tribute or thank you for his work to get it approved, sources said.

Nearly all NFL teams have sold lucrative stadium naming rights to corporate sponsors for hundreds of millions of dollars, as the Harris ownership group presumably intended to do. A handful have nicknames and sponsors, such as Empower Field at Mile High in Denver and GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. A couple fields, Green Bay's Lambeau Field and Chicago's Soldier Field, bear no sponsor names.

newdeal2

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8. Why not just name the team after him?
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 03:11 PM
Saturday

That’s what he really wants. The Washington Trumpettes.

QueerDuck

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11. He is GENUINELY becoming aware of his mortality. He fears death. GOOD!!
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 03:25 PM
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"They're coming to get you Donald!"

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AZJonnie

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17. NFL should take heed, otherwise he's going to start up his own football league and put the NFL out of business
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 04:33 PM
Saturday

Rumor is he's thinking of starting up a league called the "USFL"

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,486 posts)
18. MaddowBlog-Trump finds something else he wants to slap his name on: a football stadium in D.C.
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 10:57 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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