Trump finds support in Hud Secreary Push Redskins

President Donald Trump received the support of the Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Scott Turner, in the push of Washington Commanders to abandon his current nickname in favor of the Redskins.

Turner was a defensive back of the NFL for eight years. He played for the Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos from 1995 to 2003 before calling him a career.

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Scott Turner of the Washington Redskins watches in a match against the Arizona Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium in Temple, Arizona. (Getty Images)

He wrote a message in response to Trump on Sunday.

“I played in the NFL and I was drafted by the Washington Redskins. Not” the Washington football team “or the” commanders “, he wrote on X.” @potus is right. It’s time to bring the names of the Redskins back. “”

The Redskns selected Turner in the seventh round of the 1995 project. He played three seasons in Washington. He had 106 plated and five interceptions in his career.

Trump put the Blitz on the commanders and the Cleveland Guardians of MLB on Sunday with two social articles of truth.

“The Washington ‘What’s’ should immediately change its name to the Washington Redskins football team. There is a big complaint for that,” Trump wrote first. “Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a legendary past.

“Our great Indians, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their inheritance and their prestige are systematically removed from them.

Then he threatened to put the commanders’ agreement to take over the old RFK stadium site in Jeopardy if they do not return to the name.

Scott Turner # 29 from the Washington Redskins Watches from the Soueline against the Arizona Cardinals at the Sun Devil Stadium in Temple, Arizona, October 15, 1995. (Images Joseph Patronite / Getty)

The Super Bowl champion says he would ask Trump to help recover the nickname Redskins

“My declaration on Washington Redskins has completely exploded, but only in a very positive way,” wrote Trump in a second social article. “I can put a restriction on which if they do not change the name in the original” Washington Redskins “, and get rid of the ridiculous nickname,” Washington commanders “, I will not agree to build a stadium in Washington. The team would be much more precious, and the agreement would be more exciting for everyone.”

Daniel Snyder changed the name of the Washington team of the Washington Redskins to the Washington football team before the start of the 2020 season in the middle of a summer of racial tensions. The team finally became the commanders of Washington, and Snyder sold the team to Josh Harris.

Fox News Digital contacted the commanders to comment. Harris clearly indicated that he did not intend to change the nickname again.

Harris said on the “special report” of Fox News Channel in April that the team would not bring the names of the Redskins even with plans to build a new stadium in Washington, DC

The owner of the Washington Commanders team Josh Harris speaks during an event revealing plans to welcome the draft of the NFL 2027 in DC with President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office on May 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Annabelle Gordon for the Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The names of the commanders actually took an incredible element in our building,” said Harris to the Bret Baier’s question on the names of the Redskins which goes up as part of this new stadium agreement. “So people that certain types of players who are difficult, who love football, are delegated commanders and Jayden (Daniels), for example, is a commander and they are classified.

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“And, you know, corporate staff have entered, and obviously, we are in a military city here. There are more military staff than everywhere else, so we are moving forward with the names of the commanders, excited about it, and not looking back.”

Scott Thompson de Fox News contributed to this report.

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