With efforts underway to build an updated Washington Commanders football stadium at the old RFK site in D.C., President Donald Trump allegedly wants the new facility named after himself, according to an ESPN report that broke Saturday.

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Trump administration officials and a member of the Commanders’ ownership group have been engaged in backchannel discussions on the matter, a senior White House source told ESPN.

“That would be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

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