Quick-Witted or Over the Line? American Airlines Gate Agent Slam’s Trump Supporter’s Clothing On Halloween [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb:

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

More articles by Gary Leff »

Comments

  1. There’s a lot of “clickbait” here…and I fell for it. There’s an “olde adage” wrongly attributed to Abraham Lincoln, ““Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Many of the people compelled to express their opinions on public conveyances in very overt ways are the same narcissistic people who tell everyone about their last bowel movement on social media. I DON’T CARE what your opinion is. If I want it…I’ll ask! Sometimes it’s better to “remain silent” and not try to stir up trouble and “remove all doubt”. And I just violated this myself!

  2. Perhaps Poppie Platt coming from, what will shortly be, a Progressive, weak and woke governed Third World craphole, would be grateful for a few MAGA/MEGA (Make England Great Again) inhabitants there.

  3. Anyone wearing clothing supporting either incompetent running for president deserves rudicule.

  4. “Anyone wearing clothing supporting either incompetent running for president deserves rudicule.”

    No. They don’t. That’s the problem right now. And you wonder why there’s so much anger and hate in America.

    From a guy that wears no political shirts.

  5. Doug Parker endorsement. Heh, heh, heh,heh…

    I saw that on CNBC and thought “if you really want to help her, don’t. Seriously, dude: DON’T”

  6. They can insult others all day and night, but immediately demand to see the manager when it’s their turn for ridicule. Such is the juvenile conservative mind.

  7. In 250 years there has never been such a dismal candidate where everyone has gone to one extreme and the other side has realized that they are acting like rock star fans rather then diligent voters who know the issues rather then the hype.

    The guy proves it where he has purchased the merch of the candidate just like he bought his Kiss merch.

    I believe that it has been said you can lead a educated person to vote with facts but the uneducated drinks the kool aid

    He wore his costume and he knows it.

  8. Wearing a Trump shirt on a plane is just trying to pick a fight. So, snowflake is whining that he got the fight he picked. Yawn. Nothing with this crowd is in good faith and it’s the attention seeking behavior we’d expect from angsty teenage boys.

  9. @Thing “No. They don’t. That’s the problem right now. And you wonder why there’s so much anger and hate in America.
    From a guy that wears no political shirts.”
    To be clear I would never say a thing. On Tuesday, I’ll be wearing a shirt that has an elephant and a donkey that says: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”

  10. “Wearing a Trump shirt on a plane is just trying to pick a fight.”

    Is wearing a Harris shirt on a plane just looking to pick a fight? I was at DCA two weeks ago and saw a store that was selling both Trump and Harris shirts, hats, etc. Silly them to think they could do that and people would keep their civility. Clearly the left is not capable.

  11. @ Dave W
    “To be clear I would never say a thing. On Tuesday, I’ll be wearing a shirt that has an elephant and a donkey that says: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”
    Nicely put! I wish I would have said that.

  12. @TProphet my wife wears a MAGA hat. So you sayin she deserves to be insulted? On what basis? Perhaps you want to give it a try?

  13. DFW, perhaps your wife is just wearing that hat to lull into thinking you know how she’s voting.
    Once she goes in that voting booth, no one but her knows which of the boxes she checked.
    It’s kind of like how a guy might have to wonder if his wife might be having an affair.
    Roevember is here, after all!

  14. DFWSteve, TProphet is right- wearing campaign garb at this highly polarized time is just asking for comment, some positive and some negative. And if you take offense at people commenting negatively on your public statement, well, that’s really on you.

  15. Just because it is “polarized” (there’s that overused word again) times doesn’t mean someone should be assaulted for their political clothing. I haven’t voted in years and avoid the entire political crap show. But I’ve personally witnessed left wingers berating people that wear trump gear. Isn’t this a free country? Of have the Harris supporters forgotten that? They certainly took a long time to recognize Bidens senility and unfitness. Rest assured if my wife wears her maga hat on a plane and is assaulted, I pity the poor person when I get done with him/her/it.

  16. “but after 8 years of being punished for my beliefs”

    Curious about which beliefs he feels being punished for…his right to be a homophobe, a xenophobe, a misogynist?

    How dare President Biden and VP Harris criticize his beliefs.

  17. @dfwsteve

    Oh, you asked for and I just can’t resist…I’ll give it a try.

    Your wife is stupid. What are you going to do about it? Careful what you answer, you might end up with a bruised ego (and other things).

    BTW, you sound weirdly overprotective of you wife (perhaps whether she wants it or not?). Are you absolutely sure who she is voting for when she is in that booth all by herself?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *