A row broke out at Heathrow Airport over a "Donald Trump Maga cap."
Detectives from the Met Police are investigating after a brawl broke out between two women as passengers waited to board a British Airways flight.
The Sun reports one of the women demanded the red baseball cap, with Republican US Presidential nominee Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan on it, was taken off.
The hat has become synonymous with all of Donald Trump's presidential campaigns, with supporters of the 78-year-old former President wearing it at rallies.
The pair were quizzed by police after the incident
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When the supporter of the Republican candidate refused to remove the cap, punches were exchanged in front of passengers at Terminal 5.
Once the pair boarded the plane, both in premium economy, the row continued with the two squaring up in the cabin.
The captain of the flight bound for Austin, Texas, called for assistance and officers escorted them both off the aircraft, while they continued to exchange obscenities.
While the pair were not arrested, they were quizzed by police and both made claims of affray against each other.
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Flight BA191, which had been due to depart the airport at 12.10pm, eventually did so at 2.11pm with the two women left behind in the UK.
A Heathrow source told The Sun: “With the US Presidential election so close, tensions are sky high. Airline crew could not run the risk of a full scale punch-up at 30,000ft.
"BA officials cannot recall a flight being delayed before due to a passenger’s baseball cap. It was extraordinary."
A Met Police spokesperson said: "Shortly after 12.45pm on Monday, 28 October, police at Heathrow were made aware of an incident involving two women waiting to board a plane in Terminal 5. A woman in her 40s and a woman in her 60s made counter allegations of affray. Enquiries are ongoing.”
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A spokesperson from British Airways told The Sun: "We apologised to our customers for the delay and got them on the way as quickly as possible."
Tensions are heating up ahead of next week's Presidential Election, with Democrat candidate Kamala Harris warning that Trump was seeking unchecked power.
She said: "We know who Donald Trump is" adding the then-president sent an "armed mob" to the US Capitol to try to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election.
Meanwhile, in Florida earlier in the day, Trump sought to move on from the racist and other vulgar remarks made by allies at his New York rally on Sunday.
Trump did not comment on the remarks made by speakers at the Sunday event where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" and disparaged Black Americans, Jewish people, Palestinians and Latinos.
