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Mon May 22, 2017, 03:03 PM May 2017

A belligerent man in a Trump hat was kicked off a flight as a crowd chanted: Lock him up! [View all]

A man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat was removed from a United Airlines flight in Shanghai. (Clark Gredoña)

Like some bizarre parody of a Trump rally, a belligerent man in a “Make America Great Again” hat was booted off a plane in Shanghai Sunday — defiantly waving as a crowd of passengers jeered in the terminal: “Lock him up! Lock him up!”

It’s unclear whether Chinese police did jail the man or who he was. As others on the United Airlines flight described it, he started arguing before he stepped onto the plane.

“Obviously, the hat provoked some of the stuff,” said Alexis Zimmerman, who was flying back to Newark from a business trip.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/05/22/a-belligerent-man-in-a-trump-hat-was-kicked-off-a-flight-as-a-crowd-chanted-lock-him-up/?utm_term=.686e80d5a80f

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