SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine – South Portland High School student Connor Mullen thinks Donald Trump can Make America Great Again, but in the meantime his support for the Republican presidential frontrunner is making his life miserable.

“Thank God you can’t vote,” Mullen said one of his teachers told him upon seeing him in a red Make America Great Again cap he purchased to support his chosen candidate. He’s worn the hat the school daily despite constant harassment and ridicule.

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A female student snatched the hat off his head and threw it in the garbage. A school education technician grabbed it and held it up during a class discussion about uninformed voters, he told the Portland Press Herald.

Mullen said decided to don the cap to school because “I like the slogan, I like Donald Trump, and I like hats,” and he expected some students would try to tease him about it. What he didn’t expect was the reaction from adults at school.

“I knew kids would pick on me about it, that’s just kids being kids, but when the adults starting doing it I thought that’s problematic,” the 16-year-old said. “This is a school that preaches equality.”

And when Mullen, a sophomore, went to a school administrator to report the political bullying by his teachers, the assistant principal seemed to blame the student for his troubles.

Principal Ryan Caron told the Portland Press Herald the two discussed “the charged political climate and the attention the hat might draw,” and the assistant principal “suggested that (Mullen) might consider not wearing the hat.”

The Trump hat harassment was eventually covered by WSCH television station, which only sparked more harassment, and superintendent Ken Kunin later intervened. Kunin said school officials spoke with staff about teasing the teen, and took “disciplinary action” against the girl who trashed the hat.

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“We said, of course, ‘That’s not OK. You don’t do that,’” Kunin said. “We defend our students’ First Amendment rights.”

Hats are allowed in school according to the student dress code policy, and some students think it’s absurd that Mullen is being hassled because he supports Trump.

“I don’t think he deserves (to be bullied), he hasn’t done anything,” senior Gavin Damian-Loring said. “It’s like saying you don’t like someone else’s shirt so you have the right to punch them in the face.”

Others, like senior Caity Gaven, thinks Mullen is an instigator.

“I think if you’re wearing a Trump hat around here, you know people aren’t going to like it,” she said.

Mullen told the Press Herald he wants to work in law enforcement or the military, and appreciates Trump’s support for folks in those fields.

“I want a job like that where you can help people, and I’ve heard Trump say how important he thinks veterans and (people in law enforcement) are,” Mullen said.

Mullen isn’t the first local student to be bullied for his political beliefs. Kunin noted that he needed to remind pro-Obama students in 2008 about respecting the views of students supporting Sen. John McCain.

And despite the hassle over the Trump hat, Mullen has seemingly managed to hold his head high and maintain a positive attitude about the ordeal, in part on the advice of his father.

“I told him to remember to treat those kids (who might harass him) with the same respect you expect to be treated with,” Peter Mullen told the Press Herald.