Shanghai airport authorities escort United Airlines passenger wearing red " Make America Great Again" cap off international flight bound for New Jersey
A United Airlines passenger wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap gestures with his hand on a New Jersey-bound flight from Shanghai on May 21,2017.
BEIJING — A disruptive passenger on a United Airlines flight from Shanghai to New Jersey was asked to get off the plane in a politically tinged altercation, resulting in an unscheduled stop in San Francisco and an arrival delayed by eight hours.
Video on social media showed an unidentified man wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap heatedly insisting that he was entitled to a seat and arguing with fellow passengers, at one point calling one a “moron” who didn’t speak English.
This guy has been delaying my wife’s Shanghai to EWR United flt this a.m.. He wants to be dragged off so he can get his 25 million. MAGA hat pic.twitter.com/xWRSmpinpM
The caps were popular in President Trump’s campaign.
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