MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Amid an ongoing battle over New York state’s prohibition on Indigenous names, mascots and logos in public schools, President Donald Trump is backing a Long Island school district’s effort to keep its “Chiefs” team name.

“I agree with the people in Massapequa, Long Island, who are fighting furiously to keep the Massapequa Chiefs logo on their Teams and School. Forcing them to change the name, after all of these years, is ridiculous and, in actuality, an affront to our great Indian population,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.

The president’s post came less than a month after a federal judge found in favor of the N.Y. State Board of Regents in a legal challenge brought by Massapequa, Connetquot, Wantagh and Wyandanch school districts against the 2022 mandate

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