Angelo Notta, a 45-year-old man from Melbourne, was asked to remove his MAGA hat at a popular St Kilda bar, Captain Baxter, on Australia Day. The venue manager claimed the hat was inciting 'political trouble' and threatened to kick him out if he refused. Notta complied but questioned the double standards, wondering if the same rules would apply to hats with opposing political views.
A Melbourne man has spoken of his humiliation at being asked to remove his MAGA hat at a popular St Kilda bar, after being accused of “political incitement”. Angelo Notta, 45, was celebrating a friend’s birthday at the Captain Baxter bar on Australia Day, when he claims an employee of the venue approached him, making the demand to take the “Make America Great Again” hat off.
Melbourne man mortified over hat removal demand. “I rocked up at 5.30pm, sat down at a table and probably 10 minutes in the venue manager came up to me and said ‘I need you to remove your hat’,” Notta told the Herald Sun on Tuesday. “I said ‘Since when is there a no hat policy’ but he said ‘It’s not that, it’s what’s on the hat’. He said that it was inciting ‘political trouble’. “I was told I needed to remove it or I’m going to be kicked out. I was embarrassed. I was getting quite upset.
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