ESPN.com’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter report that President Donald Trump wants commanders Name your next stadium in DC after him.
The possibility was seeping everywhere the political maneuvers to achieve the agreement. And since he has previously demanded that the franchise “IMMEDIATELYTo restore the name he abandoned more than five years ago, naming the stadium after him could be seen as a more than acceptable compromise.
“That would be a beautiful name, since it was President Trump who made the reconstruction of the new stadium possible,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN via email.
An anonymous White House source told ESPN that the stadium was named after the president “will probably happen.”
The gesture, if carried out by the Commanders, will have a cost in the form of lost income. Low the term sheet negotiated with the District of Columbia, the Commanders will retain the proceeds from the sale of the stadium’s naming rights. If the stadium is named after the President, the Commanders will forgo the multimillion-dollar annual payments a major corporation would otherwise make to have its brand attached to the building.
The Commander in Chief’s alleged desire for the Commanders’ stadium to be named after him comes at a time when he is planning to attend the team’s Week 10 home game against Detroit.
We suppose it’s appropriate that the manipulation of the naming rights to the upcoming coliseum in the nation’s capital occurs while the Commanders are being handed over to the Lions.
And while the rest of us deal with the ongoing fallout from the longest federal government shutdown in the history of the republic.