Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Changed Washington Redskins Name To Commanders

As the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump spends a lot of time in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Naturally, he sees and hears a lot about the local football team, the Washington Commanders.

While the Commanders have a strong sense of identity right now, there was a time in recent history when the team name was quite controversial. Some never wanted to change the name at all. Others felt like the team’s temporary change to the Washington Football Team should have been made permanent, while others hated it.

After two years of being known as the Washington Football Team, the team finally had a more permanent identity when they became the Commanders, which included jersey changes and an all-new logo. Since then, the Commanders’ colors, logo and name have all grown on fans in D.C.

The president isn’t a fan at all. He says that he would have never even changed the name in the first place.

“You want me to make a controversial statement? I wouldn’t have changed the name,” Trump said. “It just doesn’t have the same, it doesn’t have the same ring to me. But, you know, winning can make everything sound good. So if they win, all of a sudden the Commanders sounds good, but I wouldn’t have changed the name.”

Trump is right in saying that winning can cure a lot of ills. Once the Commanders added Jayden Daniels to the roster, fans have since witnessed their starting quarterback develop into a superstar right in front of their eyes.

The new-look Commanders are coming off a trip to the NFC Conference Championship, so complaints are hard to find in Washington right now. Yet, if the team continued experiencing turmoil, perhaps more fans would voice a similar opinion to the one that President Trump recently shared.