In 2015-2020, it seemed like there was a case of someone being beaten, fired, or harassed for wearing a MAGA hat almost every other week, but since then, the attacks on MAGA-wearing patriots have diminished. That, however, isn’t true in Pennsylvania for one bus driver. A bus driver in Pennsylvania was forced to leave his job after being asked to remove his MAGA hat while driving kids to school. Local 21 News broke down the full story: A Littlestown bus driver claims his freedom of speech was violated after being told not to wear his “Make America Great Again” hat while driving kids to school. Dave Bonhoff, a retired Baltimore County police officer, said he decided to step away from serving the Littlestown Area School District in response. “If that wasn’t a condition of my employment, I’d be back to work tomorrow. I miss the kids. Those kids and I had a great relationship,” he said. That is—until one of his students complained about his MAGA hat, prompting a call from his boss at Krise Transportation the morning of February 18. “She contacts me and says, ‘Hey, listen, I’m going to buy you a hat, an American flag hat, because the school district has deemed that they don’t want you to wear that ” Make America Great Again ” hat,” Bonhoff said. The driver, also known as Mr. Dave from Bus #73, chose his beliefs over his bus and walked away from the job just before the afternoon drop-off. “There’s nothing in this hat that says anything about partisanship,” he said. “I think that saying that this hat is political is absurd. It’s patriotic.” When CBS 21’s Maxine Rose asked him what he would say to people who argue that the hat is synonymous with a political figure, President Donald Trump, Bonhoff said they would be wrong. “I would say that making America great is what we should all strive to be,” he said. “Anybody who doesn’t want America to prosper, I take issue with them.” Bonhoff also said the phrase had been used by Republican and Democratic presidents during their time in office, including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Here’s an interview featuring Bonhoff: A Pennsylvania school bus driver resigned after the school prohibited him from wearing a MAGA hat. pic.twitter.com/uXpq4zwCFb — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 15, 2026 CBS Austin reported that Bonhoff has received support from Republican Senator Doug Mastriano Senator Doug Mastriano (R-Pa.) has released a statement addressing a former school bus driver in Littlestown, Pennsylvania who left his job after he claimed he was given an ultimatum for wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat on his bus. The treatment of Littlestown bus driver Dave Bonhoff should outrage every Pennsylvanian who believes in liberty, fairness and the constitutional freedoms that define our nation. Mastriano said in a statement Friday that political correctness has become a “tool of intimidation.” Mr. Bonhoff is a retired police officer who continued serving his community by safely transporting children to school. Yet he was effectively forced out of his job because he wore a hat that read ‘Make America Great Again.’ Whether someone agrees with that message is completely irrelevant. In America, citizens do not lose their First Amendment rights simply because someone else claims to be offended. What happened here is not about ‘sensitivity’ or ‘respect.’ It is about the suffocating culture of political correctness that is spreading through our institutions — a culture that demands conformity, punishes dissent and attempts to silence anyone who refuses to bow to its ideology. Political correctness has become a tool of intimidation. It is used to shame, threaten and drive ordinary Americans out of their jobs and public life simply for expressing views that do not align with the approved narrative. That is not tolerance. That is coercion.