Pat McAfee broke the news on Friday afternoon that President Donald J. Trump will be in attendance for the Washington Commanders‘ Week 10 game against the Detroit Lions at Northwest Stadium. Trump will sit in the owner’s suite with Washington owner Josh Harris. He is the first United States president to attend a game at Northwest Stadium, which opened in 1997.
One day after the news broke that Trump would attend Sunday’s game between the Commanders and Lions, Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter reported that the President wants the Commanders to name their $3.7 billion stadium after him. The new stadium, to be built on the site of the old RFK Stadium, is slated to open in 2030.
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.
The Commanders declined to comment on ESPN’s report on Saturday.
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When Van Natta’s story hit social media on Saturday, there were plenty of reactions. Of course, those reactions were split, but some were extreme. Here are some of the reactions to ESPN’s story about Trump and the Commanders’ stadium.
This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Washington Commanders: Reactions to President Trump, DC stadium name