Trump Booed At Commanders Game, Reportedly Wants Stadium Named After Him

President Donald Trump could also be angling for a brand new soccer stadium within the nation’s capital to be named after him. The White Home is taking part in into reviews that Trump is looking for to have his identify connected to the brand new dwelling of Washington, D.C.’s NFL franchise. However the president’s go to to the group’s newest recreation didn’t go the best way the president seemingly deliberate.

White Home performs into hypothesis, tries to take credit score for stadium

Talks have been happening between the White Home and the house owners of the Washington Commanders over naming the NFL group’s new stadium after Trump, an unnamed senior White Home supply informed ESPN. Although these discussions haven’t been formal negotiations, they’ve concerned the Commanders’ possession group, led by Josh Harris, in response to ESPN’s supply. The brand new, as but unnamed $3.7 billion stadium is being constructed on the location of the earlier RFK stadium, the place the Washington group performed from 1961 to 1996. The choice on naming the stadium will seemingly have to incorporate the group’s house owners in addition to the District of Columbia Council, as the town is leasing the stadium to the group, and the Nationwide Park Providers, which controls the land on which the stadium is being constructed.

Neither the town of Washington, D.C., nor the Commanders has explicitly acknowledged talks about naming the stadium after Trump. The Commanders declined to touch upon the reviews, as did Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has had an uneasy relationship with the administration, particularly since a federal takeover of the town’s policing. Nonetheless, the Trump administration has not dismissed the concept. White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the concept of the stadium being named after Trump by telling ESPN, “That may absolutely be an attractive identify, because it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the brand new stadium potential.” It was Congress and President Joe Biden who, in 2024, licensed using federal land for the stadium, with Congress in January granting Washington, D.C., management of the land for 99 years. The town agreed to contribute about $1.1 billion of the $3.7 billion value of the stadium complicated. Trump, for his half, threatened to dam the stadium deal except the group restored its previous identify, the Washington Redskins, which was dropped in 2020 after being condemned for years as a racial slur towards Native People.

Trump’s NFL visitor look marked by misrepresentations, jeers

On Sunday, Trump visited the group’s present dwelling, Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, through the Commanders’ dwelling recreation towards the Detroit Lions, and he made an look throughout Fox’s Sunday broadcast of the sport. Trump sat within the sales space with Fox commentators, with the president giving his personal tackle the sport in addition to utilizing the chance to hit a few of his traditional political speaking factors, comparable to trying to color a rosy image of the financial system, regardless of the information indicating in any other case, and attacking the Biden administration.

Whereas the Fox hosts had been welcoming to Trump, the group was much less receptive to the president’s presence. As Trump, standing subsequent to Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, learn the Oath of Enlistment to service members throughout a halftime ceremony on the recreation, the president was loudly booed by the group.

The press workplace of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has trolled Trump on social media for months, reposted the video of the president being booed with a laughing caption.