The president has sought to impose his political will on a variety of sports in the U.S. His threats to the Commanders and Guardians are the latest example.

Would the world look different today if Donald Trump bought an MLB or NFL franchise? He tried to buy the Cleveland Indians in 1983 but missed out for one key reason.

MLB’s Cleveland Guardians and the NFL’s Washington Commanders have both indicated they have no plans to go back to names that were abandoned in the aftermath of a reckoning over racial injustice, iconography and racism in the U.

A day after Donald Trump threatened to hold up a deal for a new football stadium in the nation's capital if the Washington Commanders did not go back to the name Redskins, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president's comments were not a joke.

President Donald Trump called for the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians to return to their original team names. “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team.

Donald Trump has pledged to "Make Indians Great Again" by forcing two American sports teams to change back their names. The NFL's Washington Commanders and MLB's Cleveland Guardians both rebranded from the Redskins and Indians respectively amid the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.