A male passenger was removed from a JetBlue flight on Thursday morning after reportedly “berating” Ivanka Trump and her family shortly before takeoff at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to TMZ, the unruly passenger spotted the president-elect’s daughter in coach on the Florida-bound flight. “Your father is ruining the country,” the man told Trump, according to TMZ. “Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private.”
As JetBlue personnel escorted him off the plane, he purportedly protested, screaming, “You’re kicking me off for expressing my opinion?” The airline confirmed the crew removed the unidentified passenger placed him and his family on the next available flight.