President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a stadium deal for Washington's football team if it doesn't restore its old name.

Scott Turner, the HUD secretary and former Washington Redskins defensive back, backed President Donald Trump's push to change the Commanders' nickname.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.

President Trump’s call for the Commanders to readopt their Redskins nickname is dialing up a familiar play: turning the NFL into a political football by using sports, and Washington’s NFL team, as a cultural wedge issue.

President Trump on Sunday publicly demanded that the Washington Commanders change the team name back to the Redskins— labeling them derisively the “Washington Whatever’s.”