Trump Wants Commanders’ New D.C. Stadium Named for Him

Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter, reporting for ESPN:

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.”

Typically, venues like stadiums, airports, bridges, etc. aren’t named after political leaders until after they’ve died. Not so with mad kings rapidly descending into megalomaniacal dementia. This is crazy, pure and simple, just like boogering up the White House to make it look like a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Or — from just this morning — retweeting an old story from parody site “The Dunning-Kruger Times” believing it’s true. Also, the economic reality is that the naming rights for new stadiums are typically sold to corporate sponsors for large sums. (There are exceptions.) To name the stadium after Trump would likely require foregoing half a billion dollars.

In July, Trump said he would block the construction of the stadium if Harris did not change the team name from Commanders to its old name the Redskins, which is considered offensive to some Native American groups.

Perhaps “Orangeskins” would work as a compromise. And if they do cave in and name the new stadium in Trump’s honor, “The Pedolands” would work.

★ Sunday, 9 November 2025