President Donald Trump on Monday weighed in on what he called a "very important issue" creating waves in a small Long Island community after the Massapequa School Board asked the MAGA leader to help them keep their district’s Native American logo.
“I agree with the people in Massapequa, Long Island, who are fighting furiously to keep the Massapequa Chiefs logo on their Teams and School,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “Forcing them to change the name, after all of these years, is ridiculous and, in actuality, an affront to our great Indian population.”
The presidential remarks came roughly a month after a judge ruled against Massapequa in a legal tussle with the state Board of Regents, which in 2023 required the removal of Native American names and imagery from all New York public schools in a statewide mandate, according to media reports.
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“The School Board, and virtually everyone in the area, are demanding the name be kept. It has become the School’s identity and, what could be wrong with using the name, ‘Chief’?” Trump told his followers on Monday. “I don’t see the Kansas City Chiefs changing their name anytime soon!”
Trump, who has in recent weeks increased his attacks against judges at odds with his second-term policies, then directed his “highly capable Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to fight for the people of Massapequa on this very important issue.”
“LONG LIVE THE MASSAPEQUA CHIEFS!” the president added.
Early in the day, Trump sent stock markets tumbling after he escalated his persistent jabs at Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom he blasted in a Truth Social post as “Mr. Too Late” and “a major loser” over his resistance to lower interest rates.