{"id":82193,"date":"2025-07-22T03:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82193\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:58:27","slug":"d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-tries-to-skirt-presidential-name-change-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82193\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tries to skirt presidential name-change uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser did a deal with the Commanders to build a new facility at the site of RFK Stadium. On Sunday, President Donald Trump demanded<\/a> that the Commanders restore their abandoned name \u2014 and then he said he may condition the deal<\/a> on the name being changed.<\/p>\n

The Commanders and the NFL remain hidden under the nearest bed<\/a>. For her part, Bowser has spoken out. While also trying to skirt the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what I believe<\/a>,\u201d Bowser told John Keim of ESPN.com on Monday. \u201cI\u2019ve had the opportunity to speak on a couple of different occasions with the president about this site and about our team. And I can say this without equivocation, he is a Jayden Daniels fan, and he said himself, and the presser we were at, that this is probably the best site of any site he\u2019s seen for a stadium. I have to think that that\u2019s what I\u2019ve heard him say, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll stick with.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, \u201cLet\u2019s just ignore the more recent comments that conflict with this. Because he\u2019s a Jayden Daniels fan!\u201d<\/p>\n

From Bowser\u2019s perspective, the primary goal remains getting the deal one.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be clear, we\u2019re on the one-yard line and it\u2019s time to get over the line,\u201d Bowser said. \u201cI can\u2019t even imagine having to start all over on this. There\u2019s nobody waiting in the wings with $2.7 billion. And so this stadium is a catalyst, and it will attract other investments. Any impediment to it getting done should be discouraged. When you\u2019re on the one-yard line, you want to carry it over, right? That\u2019s all you want. No fumbles, no interceptions — let\u2019s just get it over the line. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n

If she really wanted to go next level with the predictable politician football puns, she would have made a tush push reference.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Bowser wants to push to the background the clear and unambiguous demands of the Commander-in-Chief regarding the Commanders\u2019 name.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s an eventuality we have to plan for,\u201d Bowser said. \u201cWhat we have to do as a city is do our part. And so our part is we\u2019ve come up with a great deal, we have a great plan, we\u2019ve done the community outreach. Now is time for the council to approve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

D.C. Council hasn\u2019t approved it. And it seems as if the application of pressure is backfiring, with D.C. Council becomes more determined to take their time.<\/p>\n

They should. Whenever anyone wants something to be rushed, there\u2019s reason to wonder what\u2019s going on. Because the best way to get a bad deal done is to hurry it through before anyone has a full and fair chance to figure it out.<\/p>\n

And, yes, it feels as if that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s been going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser did a deal with the Commanders to build a new facility at the site…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-82193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114894884265818746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}