Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen. Who would’ve thought this 1:09 song would get 126 million views on YouTube?
Not Pikotaro. We’re sure he also didn’t imagine he’d get to meet the President of the United States because of his song! Yes, you read that right. The 44- year-old PPAP performer is going to meet Donald Trump when he visits Japan in the first week of November. Reports said the garish leopard-skin- print-shirt-clad singer will meet Trump at a dinner on November 6.
The little-known comedian became famous after his song went viral a year ago, even becoming Justin Bieber’s “favourite on the Internet”.
In November last year, Ivanka Trump had posted a video on Instagram of her then-five-year-old daughter, the President’s granddaughter Arabella, singing and dancing to her own version of the song. The video has been viewed more than 1.2 million times.
It is assumed this is what prompted the Japanese government to arrange a for the Internet sensation to meet the little PPAP fan’s grandfather.