Trump Requests Naming of Washington Commanders' New Stadium After Himself

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Link to tweet

[global1]

1. I Think We Need To Put A Stop To This Day-By-Day Naming Game Tr**p Is Playing And We Just Rename.....

the whole former United States Of American - Tr**p Country!!!

Let's get it over with once and for all - instead of this piecemeal naming of ballrooms; arc's, stadiums; airports; aircraft carriers; etc, etc, etc.

Give him the whole enchilada!!!

It's both sad and humorous at the same time - and I'm tired of opening up and OP here at DU and learning what absurd thing he's doing at the current moment.

Where does he have the time to think up these schemes? After all - isn't he running the world now?

Maybe we should change the name of Planet Earth and just call it Planet Tr**p!!!

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2. Who is surprised by this

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Usually teams demand a lot of $$$ for naming rights to a stadium.

I guess he will find the money for it from wherever he got the money to bail out Argentina.

He won’t use his own money. That’s for suckers.

While many Americans starve or die from lack of affordable health care.

Can anyone tell me what the owners of the Commanders are like? Are they Trump lovers?

[Bobstandard]

4. Ideas for a nickname

In Oakland, the stadium was known as The Black Hole. or any trump stadium I propose The Garbage Hole.

(Actually, it was one particularly rowdy section of the Oakland Coliseum, but let’s not be pedantic.)

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5. Or ShitHole Stadium

Since he called Africa a bunch of shithole countries.

[True Dough]

6. What a cursed franchise.

The unfortunate name they previously had is gone.

Dan Snyder is finally out of the picture.

And then the Orange Blob wants to get his name on the stadium.

Oh, and Jayden Daniels is injured and possibly out for the season.

Hope their luck turns around!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Gavin Newsom has some great suggestions for other places to be named after trump

Newsom has some great suggestions

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I PROPOSE WE NAME MORE PLACES AFTER DONALD. RIKERS ISLAND SHALL BE "THE TRUMP FAMILY RETREAT." HIS BALLROOM: "DONNY'S MINIATURE MUSEUM OF MANHOOD." EPSTEIN ISLAND: "THE DONNY ALL-INCLUSIVE." LANDFILLS: "TRUMP'S AROMA GARDENS." SYPHILIS WILL NOW BE CALLED, "YOU'VE GOT DONALD."

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8. Senile Pedophile Donald Memorial Stadium..... Girls under 14 get in free.

[True Dough]

9. More good suggestions here:

Torrey Smith
@TorreySmithWR

Impeached Field @ Insurrection Stadium

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10. And another:

Stephen King
@StephenKing

Trump wants the DC stadium named after himself. How about Felony Field?

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11. MaddowBlog-Trump finds something else he wants to slap his name on: a football stadium in D.C.

It’s not surprising Trump is lobbying to have a football stadium named after him; it’s surprising that it took so long for this news to reach the public.

As Trump lobbies for a football stadium to bear his name, I’m reminded of something he said six years ago at a tour of Mt. Vernon:

“If [George Washington] was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-11-10T20:16:22.507Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-finds-something-else-wants-slap-name-football-stadium-dc-rcna243072

Six years later, it’s unsettling how often we’re reminded that Trump wasn’t kidding. ESPN reported over the weekend:

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.

Soon after, other news organizations published related reports, including The Associated Press and The New York Times. For its part, the White House made little effort to deny the story: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, in response to inquiries, “That would surely be a beautiful name.”....

It’s not surprising, then, that Trump is lobbying to have a football stadium named after himself; it’s surprising that it took so long for this news to reach the public.

“You’ve got to put your name on stuff, or no one remembers you.”....

I’m not in a position to say with any confidence whether the president will get his wish on any of these fronts, but his efforts are a timely reminder to those who might’ve forgotten: Trump’s principal focus is self-aggrandizement and self-glorification, not governing.