Washington Commanders
Trump Stadium, home of the Commanders? The president is not opposed.

No formal conversations about naming the Commanders’ new D.C. home for Trump have been held.

Updated
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 p.m. ESTyesterday at 3:50 p.m. EST


President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in May with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser. (Annabelle Gordon/For The Washington Post)

By Tom Schad and Mark Maske

President Donald Trump will make a rare visit to an NFL game Sunday afternoon when the Washington Commanders host the Detroit Lions at Northwest Stadium. During his visit, the Commanders anticipate that the subject of the name that will grace their next stadium will come up.

After ESPN reported Saturday that Trump would like the Commanders’ new $3.7 billion home, which will be built on the RFK Stadium site in D.C., to bear his name, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted in a statement, “That would surely be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible.”

The RFK site was controlled by the federal government until Congress voted in December 2024 to give control of the land to the District. The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act was signed by Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, in January.

There have been no formal conversations between the Commanders and the White House about naming the stadium after Trump, a person familiar with the team’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, told The Washington Post, but the team anticipates there could be conversations when he attends Sunday’s game. The president is expected to watch a portion of the game from the suite of Commanders principal owner Josh Harris, the person added.

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Meagan Flynn, Jenny Gathright and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. contributed to this report.

By Tom Schad
Tom Schad covers the Washington Commanders for The Washington Post. He previously focused on enterprise, investigations and Olympic sports for USA Today.follow on X@Tom_Schad

By Mark Maske
Mark Maske covers the NFL for The Washington Post. He has covered the NFL and the Washington Football Team since 1998. He previously covered baseball, the Baltimore Orioles, the effort to bring a major league team to Washington, and colleges.follow on X@MarkMaske