Trump floats 'restriction' for Commanders if they fail to ditch nickname in favor of Redskins return

President Donald Trump threatened to hang up the Washington Commanders plans to build a new stadium in D C in the balance if the group didn t revert back to the Redskins moniker Trump put the pressure on the Commanders and the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday calling both organizations out in two posts made on Truth Social My comment on the Washington Redskins has totally blown up but only in a very positive way Trump wrote in a second Truth Social post I may put a restriction on them that if they don t change the name back to the original Washington Redskins and get rid of the ridiculous moniker Washington Commanders I won t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington The Club would be much more valuable and the Deal would be more exciting for everyone CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMThe president added that the Guardians should follow suit Cleveland should do the same with the Cleveland Indians The Owner of the Cleveland Baseball Band Matt Dolan who is very political has lost three Elections in a row because of that ridiculous name change Trump added What he doesn t understand is that if he changed the name back to the Cleveland Indians he might authentically win an Poll Indians are being treated very unfairly MAKE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN MIGA Paul Dolan is the squad owner Matt Dolan holds a minority stake in the organization Fox News Digital reached out to the Commanders for comment Trump made the original demand for the teams to change their names earlier on Sunday The Washington Whatever s should STRAIGHTAWAY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Organization There is a big clamoring for this Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday Likewise the Cleveland Indians one of the six original baseball teams with a storied past Our great Indian people in massive numbers want this to happen Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them Times are different now than they were three or four years ago We are a Country of passion and common sense OWNERS GET IT DONE Guardians president Chris Antonetti responded to Trump s pressure in the middle of the afternoon He revealed it wasn t indeed something the organization had on its mind SUPER BOWL CHAMP SAYS HE'D ASK TRUMP TO HELP GET REDSKINS NICKNAME BACK But I would say generally I understand that there are very different perspectives on the decision we made a minimal years ago he disclosed via Cleveland com Obviously it s a decision we ve made and we ve gotten the opportunity to build the brand as the Guardians over the last four years and are excited about the future The Guardians had no additional comment on Trump s posts Commanders club owner Josh Harris joined Trump D C Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in the Oval Office when the deal for the RFK Stadium site was released Congressional lawmakers supported Harris going back to the old stadium site on the condition that the band and NFL would honor the old Redskins logo Sen Steve Daines R-Mont stated in November he would advocacy the organization going forward with its plan after good faith negotiations with both entities We were calling out leaders in event of really woke gone wrong Daines stated at the time The irony that they were canceling Native American way of life as the DEI movement went way too far This is honoring a Blackfeet chief who was born in Montana He is highly esteemed The Blackfeet tribe of Montana their current chairman and tribal council signed a letter in strong aid to bring the logo back It honors Indian Country We have good discussions with the NFL and with the Commanders There s good faith in negotiations going forward that s going to allow this logo to be used again Perhaps revenues going to a foundation that could help Native Americans in sports and so forth We re making good progress and based on the good faith negotiations I made a decision to promotion this bill the previous evening in the committee But Harris made clear in an interview on Fox News Channel s Special Record that there were no plans to bring back the Redskins name The Commanders name truly has taken on an amazing kind of element in our building Harris responded to Bret Baier s question about the Redskins name coming back as part of this new stadium deal So the people that certain types of players that are tough that love football are delegated Commanders and Jayden Daniels for example is a Commander and they're ranked And you know the business staff has gotten into it and obviously we're in a military city here There's more military personnel than anywhere else so we're kind of moving forward with the Commanders name excited about that and not looking back Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter