A South Portland High School student said he’s being bullied because of his support for presidential candidate Donald Trump, WCSH-TV 6 reported.

Connor Mullen, 16, a sophomore at the school, said classmates and even a teacher made fun of him for wearing a cap emblazoned with the Trump campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

When he went to the assistant principal to complain, Mullen said, he was told to leave the cap at home.

“People wear the Bernie (Sanders) pins all the time, and I’ve never heard anything about them,” Mullen told the Portland TV station. “But I wear this hat, and now it’s, ‘Keep the hat at home.’ ”

Superintendent of Schools Ken Kunin said the schools need to “be a place where kids of a variety of political persuasions, religions and races can all come together in a respectful dialogue,” WCSH reported. “Sometimes we do that well and sometimes we make stumbles. … Our job is to always do it better.”

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