Bruce Springsteen's NJ hometown considers naming a school after Trump

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Mar 10, 2026

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Officials in Bruce Springsteen’s hometown are considering honoring President Donald Trump by naming a New Jersey grade school after him.

Colts Neck Board of Education board member Robert Scales said he hopes to form a committee to rename Conover Road Primary School, according to News 12. The idea was proposed during a Wednesday meeting.

Colts Neck has two schools with similar names that may cause confusion.

Conover Road Elementary School serves grades three through five. Conover Road Primary School educates younger students. The latter could bare the 47th president’s name if MAGA community members get their way.

Springsteen owns a sprawling horse ranch in Colts Neck that serves as his primary residence, according to Architectural Digest.

He told London publication The Times in a 2024 interview that estate, which includes a recording studio, is where he likes to be.

“I feel safe here,” Springsteen said. “This is where my people are, where the folks I wrote about are.”

He grew up in nearby Freehold and came of age playing music in Jersey Shore towns including Asbury Park. The 76-year-old rocker also famously voices his opposition to Trump during performances like the opening night of his recent European tour in England, where he told fans that his country is “in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”

Trump, who was touring the Middle East at the time, responded by calling Springsteen a “highly overrated” musician and declaring the “Born in the U.S.A.” singer was out of line for disparaging him on foreign soil.

“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare,’” Trump posted on social media. “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

The President also has ties to New Jersey. He frequently spends time at his Trump National Golf Course Bedminster. His first wife, Ivana Trump, was buried on those grounds in 2022.

No formal action was taken in last week’s Colts Neck Board of Education discussion.

“I think if we look at who our true ally is and kinda who we’re modeling things after, the birthday of America, and someone who is contributed a great deal of time to this great town of Colts Neck, it would be our President Donald J. Trump,” Scales reportedly said.

The nation celebrates its 250th birthday on July 4.