The president posted Monday that he had asked the Secretary of Education "to fight for the people of Massapequa" as the school district seeks to keep its nickname, the "Chiefs."

President Donald Trump ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to intervene in a New York legal dispute over a school using a Native American mascot. The New York Board of Regents ordered all New York public schools to remove Native American names and imagery.

President Donald Trump is siding with a Long Island school district in its attempt to keep its Chiefs iconography after New York state banned schools from using Native American mascots and team names.