http://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/boston-republican-confronted-in-viral-video-over-47-hat/
By Chris Harris
The New York Post
Published April 19, 2025
A blustering Massachusetts College of Art and Design student recently berated a Trump supporter in an unruly, expletive-laced, two-minute-long rant triggered by a hat — but it wasn’t the typical red MAGA headgear that set him off.
Nicky Miceli’s chapeau was a white baseball cap with a large gold “47” emblazoned across the front, but it was enough to set off the aggressive April 10 encounter, video showed.
“I truly feel sorry for this individual,” Curry College senior Nicky Miceli told The Post. “I believe the liberal media has instilled this hate in people, where they have been constantly ripping into not just Trump, but his supporters, too.”
Nicky Miceli said the unnamed student came from out of nowhere. | Nicky Miceli/ Facebook
Miceli, 21, a member of Massachusetts’ Republican State Committee, was walking outside Boston’s Wentworth Institute of Technology, on his way to meet up with friends, when the strange mustachioed man walked up to him and “just started shouting in my face.”
After 10 seconds, a realization came to him: “I thought, ‘Holy crap! I’ve seen these videos all the time on social media, and now, its happening to me!'” he said.
Miceli, seen here with Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton, is a member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee. | Nicky Miceli/ Facebook
He pulled out his phone and started filming the irate man, who called him a “Nazi” or a “Nazi punk” a dozen times in the footage.
He was ready to defend himself if attacked, but stayed cool as the squawking student kept following him, demanding he “get the f–k out of here” and “go f–k yourself,” Miceli recalled.
Miceli, posing with Donald Trump Jr., said he feels bad for the man who yelled at him. | Nicky Miceli/ Facebook
Instead of returning the profanity, Miceli thanked the anti-Trumper “for giving me great content” — making the abrasive man even angrier.
The verbal accoster even tried — and failed — to enlist passersby to join in his rant and “boo” Miceli, the video showed.
Miceli, who paid $5 for the U.S.-made “47” hat, told The Post he didn’t report the confrontation to Boston cops.
Miceli held his composure as he was berated in Boston. | Nicky Miceli/ Facebook
“What happened to me, [the attempted assassination of] President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and what happens to Trump supporters all across the country is because of hate, fueled by the socialist media,” Miceli said.
“We live in the greatest country in the world, where you have the freedom to express yourself,” he added, “and everybody has a right to wear whatever they want. But this is who we are, as Trump supporters. We’re way more mature than them.”
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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