Reference News, July 22 report - According to Reuters, July 20 report, US President Donald Trump on July 20 threatened to intervene in the deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, unless the local National Football League team, the "Commanders", changed its name back to the original "Redskins".
This American football team stopped using the name "Redskins" in 2020, which had been criticized for decades as a racist term associated with the massacre of indigenous people in the United States.
Trump had previously called for the return of the "Redskins" name - and also called for the Cleveland "Guardians" to revert to the "Indians" name. On July 20, he added that he might take official action.
Trump posted on his "Truth Social" platform: "If they don't stop using the ridiculous name 'Washington Commanders' and change it back to the original 'Washington Redskins', I may impose restrictions on them. I won't let them build a stadium in Washington."
The team moved from Washington to a suburb of Landover, Maryland in 1997, but reached an agreement with the District of Columbia government earlier this year to return to Washington. The new stadium is expected to open in 2030.
Under the current local autonomy law that regulates the federal government's oversight of the District of Columbia, Trump has limited power to intervene, but he has already proposed the possibility of implementing more control. In February, he told reporters: "I think we should take over Washington, D.C." (Translated by Yang Xinpeng)
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