--- title: Seth Meyers Sends Message to Trump With 'MAGA' Hat Redesign description: Seth Meyers just took a page out of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's book by using a baseball cap to send a message to President Trump. canonical: https://time.com/5013161/seth-meyers-trump-hat-redesign/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-07T15:38:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:32.161Z og:title: Seth Meyers Sends a Message to Trump With 'MAGA' Hat Redesign og:description: "The only way to communicate effectively with Donald Trump is via hat" og:url: https://time.com/5013161/seth-meyers-trump-hat-redesign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Sends a Message to Trump With 'MAGA' Hat Redesign twitter:description: "The only way to communicate effectively with Donald Trump is via hat" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Sends a Brutal Message to Donald Trump With 'MAGA' Hat Redesign  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 7, 2017 3:38 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 7, 2017 3:38 PM UTC [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/4979299/seth-meyers-eminem-rap-bet-donald-trump/) just took a page out of [Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s](http://time.com/5011175/donald-trump-shinzo-abe-japan/) book by using a baseball cap to send a message to [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5012974/donald-trump-south-korea-kim-jong-un/). Abe welcomed Trump to Japan on Saturday with a redesigned, “Make America great again,” hat featuring the slogan, “Donald & Shinzo make alliance even greater,” inspiring Meyers to test the method out for himself. “Abe is a smart man. He figured out that the only way to communicate effectively with Donald Trump is via hat,” the _Late Night_ host said during the “A Closer Look” segment of Monday’s episode. “Which actually gives me an idea.” Meyers then donned a white cap with gold lettering that read, “Resign, Donald.” “Also the hat said, ‘Donald & Shinzo make alliance even greater,'” he added of Abe’s present for Trump. “That sounds like what you would say to a monkey if you were teaching it sign language: ‘Human and ape make friendship stronger!'” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5013161/seth-meyers-trump-hat-redesign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5013161/seth-meyers-trump-hat-redesign/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Sends a Brutal Message to Donald Trump With 'MAGA' Hat Redesign","datePublished":"2017-11-07T15:38:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:32.161Z","description":"\"The only way to communicate effectively with Donald Trump is via hat\"","url":"https://time.com/5013161/seth-meyers-trump-hat-redesign/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5013161/seth-meyers-trump-hat-redesign/","name":"Seth Meyers Sends a Brutal Message to Donald Trump With 'MAGA' Hat Redesign"}}]}] ```