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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him [View all]
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
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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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
SO he's willing to pay $700 million over the next 20 years for his name to be on the stadium?
Wiz Imp
Saturday
#9
His regime lied, as they do, day-in, day-out, without consequence or pushback by our intrepid M$M
AZJonnie
Saturday
#14
Governor Newsom has some great suggestions for other things to be named after trump
LetMyPeopleVote
Saturday
#22
MaddowBlog-Trump finds something else he wants to slap his name on: a football stadium in D.C.
LetMyPeopleVote
Tuesday
#33