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Editorial: The lame Trump mascot name game

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05.06.2025

A mural outside of Massapequa High School in Nassau County features an image of the school's mascot, the "Chiefs."

Presidents of the United States have a lot on their plates and would presumably be too busy to get wrapped up in local issues such as, say, school mascots and names.

Not so with President Donald J. Trump.

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The Republican recently took to Truth Social — where else? — to blast away at a controversy in Massapequa over the forced change of the local school district's mascot. The state Education Department, you see, has ordered the suburban Long Island district to change its decades-old "Chiefs" name, part of the broader effort to rid New York schools of logos and mascots derived from depictions of Indigenous people.

"Forcing them to change the name, after all of these years, is ridiculous and, in actuality, an........

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