Man taken off flight after Ivanka Trump is yelled at
‘Your father is ruining the country,’ he reportedly said.
A JetBlue passenger was removed from a commercial flight Thursday morning after allegedly yelling at and harassing President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, according to multiple media reports.
The passenger reportedly yelled, “Your father is ruining the country,” according to the New York Post.
A B C N e w s r e p o r t e d “s e n i o r s ou rc e s ” wi t h i n Trump’s transition team said the destination was Hawaii.
T h e N e w Y o r k P o s t re por t e d t he pa s s e nge r, a lawyer from New York named Dan Goldstein, was seen holding a child and yelling at Ivanka Trump and demanding to know why she was on a commercial flight and not a private or charter jet.
A man on the same JetBlue flight as Ivanka Trump out of JFK airport in New York City posted to Facebook and Instagram on Thursday to share what he says happened on the plane before two men were removed by members of the flight’s crew.
Marc Scheff is pictured in a photo tweeted and then deleted by one of the men removed from the flight. Several Twitter users took screenshots of the tweet and shared it widely on social media.
The photo shows Scheff and his son seated in front of Ivanka Trump during the incident. “He didn’t accost her directly,” Scheff says in his post. “When he got on and saw her, sitting behind me, he said ‘oh my god. This is a nightmare’ and was visibly shaking.”
Scheff described the man a s “c a l m” b u t “a g i t a t e d maybe.” Trump, who was traveling with her three children and husband, Jared Kushner, at one point told the flight crew, “I don’t want to make this a thing,” Scheff said.