Trump's Washington Commanders threat: Can president actually block team's planned move to D.C.?

[Eugene]

Source: Yahoo! Sports

Trump's Washington Commanders threat: Can president actually block team's planned move to D.C.?

Yahoo Sports Staff
Updated Mon, July 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM EDT·3 min read

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A Commanders spokesperson declined comment on the issue to the Washington Post on Sunday. Back in February, team owner Josh Harris committed to sticking with the new name, saying it's "embraced by our team." A poll conducted in May by the Post suggested it's embraced by the public too, with 50 percent of local people and 62 percent of Commanders fans saying they either "like" or "love" the name.

But Trump appears insistent, so the next logical question is: Can Trump actually block a move?

As with anything in politics, it's a tangled, complicated answer. We know this: The Commanders have submitted a proposal to move into a new stadium within D.C. limits built on the site of the old Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, which was the team's home from 1961 to 1996. But there are avenues the president could take, as laid out by Front Office Sports.

These are the paths of least resistance, though each would still require Trump to steel himself for a political fight:

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/sports/nfl/article/trumps-washington-commanders-threat-can-president-actually-block-teams-planned-move-to-dc-184723621.html

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The article goes list the following options:
1. Lobby the D.C. city government, which is negotiating the move
2. Get Congress, which funds the district, to compel the renaming
3. Revert the land transfer of the RFK Stadium site back to the federal government

[boonecreek]

1. There are other cities.

Maybe St. Louis would like having an NFL team again.