LSU's Lane Kiffin posts then deletes Trump-tagged photo of hats inspired by MAGA slogan

Lane Kiffin is nary alien to controversy, but the LSU caput manager recovered himself backmost successful the spotlight again this week aft sharing a societal media station that tagged President Donald Trump. 

Kiffin has drawn scrutiny before, astir notably erstwhile helium near Ole Miss amid its nationalist title pursuit to instrumentality the Tigers’ caput coaching job. But his latest station reignited attraction connected the outspoken coach.

LSU president Wade Rousse, LSU caller caput manager Lane Kiffin and LSU diversion manager Verge Ausberry basal unneurotic astatine South Stadium Club astatine Tiger Stadium. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

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Kiffin posted a photograph Friday of 2 LSU-themed hats featuring the inscription "Make Baton Rouge Great," an evident play connected Trump’s "Make America Great Again" slogan.

The station received mixed reactions connected societal media, yet starring Kiffin to delete it and reupload the photo, this clip tagging LSU instead. 

But users responded to the caller station with comments like, "The net remembers." 

Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin successful the 4th fourth against the Arkansas Razorbacks astatine Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium connected Nov. 2, 2024. (Nelson Chenault/Imagn Images)

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Kiffin besides addressed his earlier contention successful a abstracted post, telling LSU and Ole Miss fans, "We tin each get along."

"Remember Red and bluish marque purple. We tin each get along," his station read. 

Kiffin signed a seven-year, $91 cardinal contract, making him 1 of assemblage football’s richest caput coaches. Part of LSU’s woody to lure Kiffin distant from Ole Miss was to wage his afloat bonus operation from his erstwhile employer.

Lane Kiffin speaks astatine a property league arsenic helium is introduced arsenic the caller caput shot manager of the LSU Tigers astatine Tiger Stadium successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana, connected Dec. 1, 2025. (Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images)

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 After a semifinal exit, Kiffin cashed successful connected a $500,000 bonus. 

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