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Breaking news from TMZ where they report an unruly passenger was kicked off a Jet Blue flight after verbally berating Ivanka Trump and her 3 kids!
Ivanka Trump Accosted by Passenger on JetBlue Flight https://t.co/1k6rlU93Jv
— TMZ (@TMZ) December 22, 2016
According to TMZ, the passenger shouted, “Your father is ruining the country.” And as he was being escorted off the flight, he screamed, “You’re kicking me off for expressing my opinion?!!”
Hunter College professor Matthew Lasner says his husband was the one Jet Blue kicked off the plane and tweeted pics of the incident:
https://twitter.com/mattlasner/status/811958765524230144
https://twitter.com/mattlasner/status/811953001413873664
https://twitter.com/mattlasner/status/811941755427889153
Dude. You just admitted that he was harassing her, which is the opposite of expressing “displeasure in a calm tone.”
Update: Deleted, but screenshots are forever:
https://twitter.com/ScottInSC/status/811966592187846656
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/811962880249753600
"You better bake that cake!"
"I have to sit on airplane with Trumps?? WTFFFF" pic.twitter.com/enWnEHRPwI
— Jason (@jasonelevation) December 22, 2016
Update 2. Jet Blue issued a statement on today’s incident:
Jet Blue statement on passenger being kicked off after harassing Ivanka Trump on flight today. pic.twitter.com/tUw8ur9wWy
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) December 22, 2016
Editor’s note: Additional tweets have been added to this post.
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