MAGA supporter booted from flight for offensive Trump shirt

Published Sep 02, 2024  •  2 minute read

Screenshot of man being escorted from Delta plane for obscene shirt. Photo by SkBeachGirl /Reddit

A passenger on a Delta Airlines flight was escorted off a plane for allegedly wearing a T-shirt that featured Donald Trump giving the middle finger.

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A video shared on Reddit’s Delta page shows the moment the angry MAGA supporter was led off the flight at Florida’s Sarasota Bradenton International Airport on Sunday morning.

“I’m getting kicked off because of my shirt,’ the man said to the other passengers as he walked down the aisle with his suitcase.

“And this is her reporting,” he noted, gesturing towards one of the flight attendants and reading the name tag on her uniform.

“Stupid a** Wendy,” he groused.

He then sarcastically thanked her as he disembarked from the plane.

Reddit user SKBeachGirl, who posted the video, wrote that they were “sitting next to a young man before boarding that had on a Trump shirt with middle fingers.”

Soon after, an airline employee approached the man about his shirt, telling him that someone had complained and that he must change his shirt or he would not be allowed to board, the Reddit user explained.

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“He turned his shirt inside out, and we all boarded,” the Redditor wrote.

“Next thing I know, right before takeoff, a Delta employee comes on the plane and escorts him off the flight,” they continued, revealing that he had “flipped his shirt back to the decal side.”

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The traveller’s black T-shirt showed a graphic of Trump wearing American flag sunglasses, flipping two birds, and above the image of the former president are the words “HAWK TUAH” in bold, white letters.

Below the image of Trump was “Spit on that thang,” a disgusting reference to the viral video in which Hailey Welch, a.k.a. the “Hawk Tuah Girl,” described the sound of oral sex.

Commenters defended the Delta crew member’s actions, with most agreeing that it wasn’t who was on the shirt or the words on it but the middle fingers that were the problem.

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“Probably got kicked off because of the middle fingers being displayed in the T-shirt. I see lots of maga shirts when I fly,” one person noted.

A second person mused that it was for disobeying the flight attendant.

“He was allowed to stay on when his shirt was inside out but by turning it back before takeoff, he thought he was being slick,” they guessed. “Naturally the staff assumed that if he’s going to disregard them, he’ll do it again, and thus poses a minor flight risk.”

Another agreed: “When you purchase a ticket, you agree to abide by certain rules, including behaviour and dress, and you agree to abide by requests made by the ground and cabin crew.”

Delta reserves the right to refuse transportation to an individual when their attire “creates an unreasonable risk of offense or annoyance to other passengers,” according to the airline’s contract of carriage.

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