“President Trump is threatening to derail a plan to build a new stadium in Washington, D.C., for the Washington Commanders football team unless the team changes its name back to the previous name,” NPR reports.

Said Trump: “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should immediately change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this.”

New York Times: “In his posts, Mr. Trump also urged the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, which changed its name from the Cleveland Indians in 2021, to follow suit.”

President Trump “shared a bizarre fake video depicting the arrest and imprisonment of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, following a furious weekend posting rampage,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Maria Farmer twice reported Donald Trump‘s connection with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to the FBI, shining light on how the president may be mentioned in the Epstein files held by the Justice Department,” Rolling Stone reports.

“Farmer, who worked for Epstein and recently spoke to The New York Times, first went to law enforcement in 1996 to tell them that Epstein and his longtime partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, sexually assaulted her.”

A new CBS News/YouGov poll finds 75 percent of Americans disapprove of the administration’s handling of matters related to Jeffrey Epstein, and 89 percent want the Justice Department to release all the information it has on the case.

President Trump writes on Truth Social that this has been “one of the most consequential periods of any President.”

He adds: “In other words, we got a lot of good and great things done, including ending numerous wars… Six months is not a long time to have totally revived a major Country.”

Playbook: “If you survey the headlines this morning, you’ll see precious few of the six-months-in prewrites that assignment editors like to tee up. Instead, the space is filled with stories about Epstein and Trump.”

Washington Post: “If it continues to grab public attention, it could pose a more significant threat at a time when Trump’s standing with the public already has been on the decline, though polling shows him steady with his own party.”

USA Today: “The very tools that helped win Trump two terms — the openness to conspiracy, the distrust of elites, the eruption of a viral moment — have now turned to bedevil him.”

Axios: “Forget resistance mounted by Democrats, moderate Republicans or even the courts. The most destabilizing opposition of Trump’s second term has come from within: an online MAGA army known for its extreme devotion.”

“After nearly two weeks of relentless discourse — fueled in large part by MAGA influencers — Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday night to seek the release of grand jury testimony in the Epstein case.”

“Though the move is a long shot to produce new evidence — and falls far short of the sweeping disclosures demanded by his base — it still marked a clear shift in posture.”

“In the swirl of money and sun-tanned women that was their Palm Beach-and-Manhattan set, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein spent nearly 15 years mingling side-by-side as public friends,” the New York Times reports.

“There were lavish dinners with boldface names at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side and raucous parties with cheerleaders and models at Mr. Trump’s private club and residence at Mar-a-Lago. In between, there were trips back and forth from Florida to New York on one of Mr. Epstein’s private jets.”

“But behind the tabloid glamour, questions have lingered about what Mr. Trump’s long association with Mr. Epstein says about his judgment and character, especially as his allies have stoked sinister claims about Mr. Epstein’s connections to Democrats. After their relationship ruptured, the disgraced financier ended up behind bars not just once, but two times, after being accused of engaging in sex with teenage girls.”

CNN: 5 big questions about Trump’s ties to Epstein.