Black Trump Supporter Kicked Off Of A Southwest Airlines Flight For Removing His Trump Mask … To Eat
Donald Trump Jr. weighed in on Twitter and the video went viral.
A video being shared all over social media by conservatives shows an African American Trump supporter being removed from a flight for allegedly refusing to wear a mask while he was eating.
Philip Ndifon of Tampa, Florida, who wore a “Black Voices for Trump” hat and a “Trump 2020” mask pulled down onto his chin as he was eating a bag of peanuts, was asked to leave the plane by a flight attendant just as the plane was getting ready to depart for Dallas on Tuesday.
Ndifon was apparently asked to leave after he lowered his mask to eat peanuts although the airline claims he refused repeated requests to wear a mask.
‘WTF???’ President Trump’s eldest son tweeted on Tuesday.
‘This is disgusting. I’ve been on a thousand flights in the last few months and everyone lowers their masks to eat and drink.
WTF??? This is disgusting. I’ve been on a thousand flights in the last few months and everyone lowers their masks to eat and drink. I did it on a southwest flight earlier this week. https://t.co/yQxUcbduwp
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 14, 2020
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According to the Daily Mail, the video was filmed by conservative activist and lawyer, KrisAnne Hall, who was a part of the group traveling with Ndifon heading to Amarillo, Texas for an event.
Hall told Newsweek that the flight attendant ‘seemed to single out Philip from the moment we boarded.’
‘Philip was a complete gentleman and complied with all their requests and policies,’ she said.
‘I have been flying Southwest regularly for over a decade.
‘I have never experienced such targeting by a Southwest employee.’
She added: ‘They usually have great customer service. But today this attendant refused [to] impartially apply [the] policy [and] made up an excuse to have Philip removed from the plane.
Southwest Airlines has said that Ndifon was repeatedly asked by “more than one employee at different times to wear a face mask” and did not comply so the decision was made to have him return to the gate and “re-accommodate him on a later flight” after “receiving assurances he would comply” with their face mask policy.
This is in contradiction to Hall’s claim that other passengers said that Ndifon was following the rules and that when he was asked to leave his mask was on his face.
‘The supervisor ignored the other customers when they said Philip was following the policies and took him off the plane.’
Source: Daily Mail
Let’s be frank… we know what’s going on here, don’t we?
😡 This is wrong!! I just flew @SouthwestAir and they clearly said “if you’re eating or drinking you can remove your face covering and when done eating/drinking you must put your face covering back on for the duration of the flight.” #southwest https://t.co/DPrmHSVfnE
— aarondewinter (@aarondewinter) October 13, 2020
This is prob the underlying reason they decided to pick on this gentlemen … #Trump2020 #BlackVoicesforTrump pic.twitter.com/sZtT8M2FaJ
— aarondewinter (@aarondewinter) October 13, 2020
Trump supporters are vilified already, but visible minorities, women, and LGBT Trump supporters seem to receive a particular kind of “special” treatment by the “tolerant left.”
