Pro-Trump activist and former Libertarian Heather Mullins complained about her treatment flying American Airlines first class, reporting that a flight attendant skipped over her when taking drink orders because of her MAGA hat.
I’ve worn my MAGA hat every time I’ve flown for the last four years and got thousands of fist bumps. NEVER got any hate. Well, there’s a first time for everything. I just had the flight attendant for @AmericanAir SKIP ME in first class when asking everyone if they wanted a…
— Heather Mullins (@TalkMullins) June 16, 2024
She says that she was eventually served a drink, but was served last. She went to file a complaint when she landed, during the time before her connecting flight. However she reports getting the runaround – that she needed to speak to a supervisor but none would be available for an hour, and that she’d be better off filing her complaint online.
Tried to file a complaint during my layover. First woman said I needed to call a Supervisor.
Supervisor told me it would be over an hour to get a manager and to go to the website.
When I tried recording her instructions she got upset and called a customer service manager.…
— Heather Mullins (@TalkMullins) June 17, 2024
When I tried submitting a complaint I got the runaround and ultimately told to go to the website. I’ll do that today but I’m not confident anything will get done. pic.twitter.com/MkoRn3LK75
— Heather Mullins (@TalkMullins) June 17, 2024
I have four general reactions here,
- She flew American Airlines first class. She got a drink. That’s pretty much the product, so I’m not sure on some level what she is complaining about here. Her expectations may have been off.
- Cabin crew frequently begin to take orders, or start service, and then stop to take care of something else. When they re-start it’s possible to forget where they’ve left off. This all may have been because of a MAGA hat, or something else.
- A perceived rude response from the flight attendant may have been triggered by feeling that the passenger was rude to her in asking about the drink while she was busy. Or it could have been because of the MAGA hat!
- While the flight attendant shouldn’t have ‘discriminated against the MAGA passenger,’ to the extent that she paid for her ticket and was allowed to board wearing it, the whole purpose of wearing it was to trigger others. It worked! FAFO.
An American Airlines spokesperson offers,
American Airlines strives to provide a positive and welcoming experience to everyone who travels with us. We are investigating the matter, including reaching out to the customer to learn more about her experience.
Mullins reports that “[s]omeone from [American Airlines]…called, apologized, and said they are putting in the complaint and notifying the inflight management.” However, she complains that she (quite naturally) won’t ultimately be notified if any actions are taken against the cabin crew member.
They’re bringing politics into a metal tube that’s about to be sealed, trapping everyone – from different backgrounds and beliefs – inside. This can only serve to provoke. In fact, the reason for wearing the hat (and shirt) is to provoke and troll.
Meanwhile, Mullins thinks that instead of having to fly American Airlines, Donald Trump should start an airline seemingly blissfully unaware that there used to the Trump Shuttle, which failed and was taken over by US Airways and is a product since eliminated by American Airlines!
Trump should buy a fleet of planes and, wrap them all like this, and start his own commercial airline company. I would honestly never fly another airline again.
Would you fly on a Trump plane? pic.twitter.com/1PHViuUj09
— Heather Mullins (@TalkMullins) June 17, 2024
In 1989, Donald Trump tried unsuccessfully to buy American Airlines, ultimately losing money on his attempt, getting caught up in that year’s Friday the 13th stock market mini-crash.
Enough with the victim schtick. It’s invariably about someone’s 15 minutes of fame.
@ Gary — She’s an idiot like all of them.
How do you know that this woman wore the hat to provoke discord? You cannot infer anything from her wearing the hat other than she supports what Trump is saying. I think you might be showing your personal slant on the fact situation based on your own preferences. I should be able to wear a Biden or Trump hat and get treated with respect either way.
I really wish people would stop looking for trouble on airplanes. (Eyeroll)
So Maga hat wearing person now claims the super power of being able to read other people’s minds? Wow. Just wow.
‘First Class on AA’ is an oxymoron .
The hat was merely an excuse for a snotty FA to be outwardly snotty .
I’m with Gary on this: the woman wore something to piss people off, succeeded (according to her), then complained because she succeeded in her goal? Even by MAGA standards she’s a nutbag.
I believe that her complaint is valid. For whatever reason, TDS is real and that hat really triggers the loonies. I hope that she gets a free ticket out of it.
When you realize what her Twitter page says and see that she has a form of a gofundme directly to her bank account to support herself then you know everything she says is to get her 15 minutes. I normally believe there are two sides to every story. In this case, it’s all about how many more followers she can get.
Yet another maga snowflake. Is it really shocking that they cry so much?
A lack of decorum comes with a price. I think Trump is an *sshole but I don’t tell everyone I encounter on the street or in a plane that’s the way I feel.
Maturity is the difference between knowing what you can do and what you should do. People, regardless of who they are or what they wear, who have trouble with that are great examples for ourselves and our children regarding how not to behave.
“Trump should buy a fleet of planes”…ha ha ha ha ha. I needed a good laugh today…thanks Heather!
That would go bankrupt and out of business faster than his casinos.
MAGA Women for Rapists 2024
I disagree with “the whole purpose of wearing it was to trigger others.”
People wear plenty of apparel backing brands, sport teams, artists etc, for the simple reason they support them.
Why would that be any different in relation to their political favorite? I don’t get offended when I see squad T shirts.
Is it not a simple matter of freedom of speech?
Make A$$holes Go Away! I can’t wait to see how history places these losers and yes, you lost and will lose again.
She must also assist Trump in counting people at his rallies based on what she wrote about being served last on AA. “And now everyone on the plane is floored and talking about it.”
Yes, I’m sure “everyone” on the plane was talking about it.
her layover was at PHL, they weren’t helping her regardless of what hat she wore
Failing to remove lead from water pipes, the air, and elsewhere years ago has doomed us to a country full of people lacking critical mental capacity 🙁
If you wear a MAGA hat, it’s the same as wearing a WHO FARTED hat, who is going to take you seriously?
If you wear this garbage—you are garbage
This this this
“They’re bringing politics into a metal tube that’s about to be sealed, trapping everyone – from different backgrounds and beliefs – inside. This can only serve to provoke. In fact, the reason for wearing the hat (and shirt) is to provoke and troll.”
Sums it up perfectly.
21st Century dunce cap.
Anyone who knows anything about the real Donald Trump knows that an airline is one of the many failed business ventures he has left in his wake. Her tweet about starting an airline is either clueless, or just another con aimed at his clueless base. I’m betting on the latter.
I see that the brainwashed liberals are spewing their stupidity here once again. The letters M-A-G-A stand for Make America Great Again — anyone wearing a MAGA hat is wearing it to announce to all that America needs to be made great again – after 3 1/2+ years of DemocRat rule, making America great again is needed and necessary.
So it’s now okay for AA flight attendants to treat 75 million Americans as “lesser-thans”?
Just another loser who got a job as a flight attendant.
AA can’t get the replacements in the air fast enough.
As alluded to in an earlier post by others, the only appropriate use of a MAGA hat in the skies is on a Southwest flight to deter people from sitting next to you, regardless of your own political views ala Larry David lol
@Chris … +1 . If a First Class pax pays the for ticket , the ride ought to be First Class , regardless of the hat .
Maga = nazi. They are even the same colors.
Trash belongs in a trash can.
She wore the hat to be annoying… Why is she surprised. She got her drink and should shut TF up.
There is no rule saying that we have to serve a certain passenger in any order.
I will be angry at American if they reward this witch’s stupidity and punish my colleague.
What happened to “Everyone is so offended and sensitive nowadays?”
Cry me a river, Karen
@llama
How may BLM (Burn Loot Murder) pins do you wear on your uniform. More than 5 or less than 5?
Strikes coming, better brush up on that resume after AA locks you out and doesn’t take you back.
This comment counts as my cowardly tribal membership confirmation, thank you.
“…and former Libertarian Heather Mullins…” Libertarian “candidate”, which doesn’t necessarily mean she’s a “Libertarian”.
Poor Heather has been drinking too much Kool-Aid.
I’ve got news for you Gary (and a lot of the commenter’s). As an airline crew member, I can attest that people have been wearing politically-charged shirts and hats for the entire 20- plus years I have been doing this. Presumably longer.
And until Trump, the overwhelming majority, nearly all, have been pro-left and especially anti-right.
Since Trump, there’s a lot from both sides now. And I don’t remember anyone being “triggered” until the term MAGA was coined. It makes people lose their minds.
@ David R. Miller — Yes, there is so much work to be done to put non-whites and women back in their proper places. How dare they have equality and ruin OUR COUNTRY! Idiot.
MAGA = loser, victim mentality. MAGA offers no solutions. They only demonize the vulnerable to make up for their inadequacies.
@Joesph
Who’s “vulnerable” and to what?
It seems rather entitled to expect to wear the garb of a politician the system has tried to throw in prison. That not many years ago you could expect to be physically assaulted in blue cities for wearing this, and the attackers not prosecuted. You certainly couldn’t support a jailed public figure on an Aeroflot or Air China flight. Would you see this in Brasil either?
Why don’t we use our free speech to be polite, rather than be rude.
Her gofundme account (see her twitter acct) was low on funds so she was trying anything for a freebee – MAGA hat shows she supports the grift of all grifts so why not try it out for yourself….plus how ignorant can you be if you don’t know orange had a failed airline…..DUH
Said it right here perfectly
“the whole purpose of wearing it was to trigger others. It worked!”
I have never worn anything political on an airplane or to an airport but then again I don’t require “thousands of fistbumps” but I suppose I’m not that insecure
Lol
Well boo-hoo Heather! Advertising you are a lo-IQ raving lunatic was bound to get some pushback sometime!
Maybe the FA was busy preparing you a glass of warm milk like for the other infants on board.
You should count yourself fortunate you were not off-loaded as any FA would have felt ‘not comfortable’ having you onboard due to the craziness and irrational unpredictablity of you and your cult members.
Sounds like a snowflake who was triggered to me.
I’ve had the displeasure of working flights this cretin was on. She attempted at every possible chance to argue or make something out of nothing. If you don’t know what drink you want we come back to you. It’s not all about her and her hat. We choose to ignore her but now she’s taken it too far. Next stop AA needs to ban her for her ridiculous disruptive behavior
Will be interesting to see how AA handles this.
PS I miss the shuttle. I wish AA would bring it back.
MAAGA – Making American Airlines Great Again
If we can’t assume that wearing MAGA paraphernalia is intended specifically to trigger people, then you can’t assume the FA was triggered, rather that they had other duties to attend to and made an honest mistake. You don’t get to have your cake and eat it too.
@James N For me, “…and former Libertarian Heather Mullins…” is OK, as it doesn’t suggest she is a libertarian necessarily. It’s like a Democrat isn’t necessarily a democrat. Capital letters matter (if they use them properly). I have a friend who would always say he was a “small l libertarian.”
A white woman wears a MAGA hat and it is only worn to trigger others
Do you feel the same way about an African American person wearing a Barack Obama T-Shirt?
Both are political in nature
If I rank 45, 46, and RFKjr on a scale of 1(low) to 10, the sum of their three scores is a single digit. [To provide reference for what follows.] There are those on the left that like to imagine that this is 1930s Germany, and they are among the few brave souls condemning Nazis. Treating MAGA hat wearers as trash = flipping off Hitler. Those bombing abortion clinics imagine themselves as a modern Schindler. It is so much easier to imagine you are pure and others are evil. That seems so much more common today.
Still, I doubt the events happened as described. She comes off like an incel trying to explain why girls won’t date him.
K is for Karen. Also anyone wearing a Maga hat is by definition an asshole.
Shes a dumb twit !!
Whiners
This just destroys any credibility: “And now everyone on the plane is floored and talking about it.” That isn’t going to happen in first class – nobody else will care, and even if they did, its not going to consume the conversation in first class.
Then there is this: “she complains that she (quite naturally) won’t ultimately be notified if any actions are taken against the cabin crew member.”
When one brings management into the conversation, one will NEVER hear of the outcome around the individual being complained about. Thats how the workplace works.
Much ado about nothing…
I had to look up “FAFO.”. Thanks for that.
I have to admit to being a little triggered by Trump paraphernalia, but I’ve resisted keying anyone’s car so far.
Having to wait a few minutes longer to be served your MAGArita seems like a small price to pay for freedom.
Not a cult.
@Tim O’Brien
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised when people bring up “freedom of speech” when the First Amendment doesn’t apply. When you’re on a plane that’s not owned by the government and the government isn’t telling you what you can or can’t say, it’s not about “freedom of speech.”
So wearing what you want to wear provokes and trolls?
I’m sure in Gary’s World, this only applies to MAGA/Trump/Republicans.
Why wear Pride stuff? It provokes and trolls–half the country doesn’t want to see that nonsense just the same as half the country doesn’t want to see a MAGA hat
I remember when inflation was 1.4%, gas was $2.57, groceries were 30% less expensive, ditto for auto insurance, etc, when we had the lowest unemployment for blacks, whites, women, Latinos, and the economy was humming. Not to mention no foreign wars started, first in 71 years, oh and the foreign policy, the Abraham Accords, Rocket man ceased sending rockets over to Japan, Iran was held responsible for sponsoring terrorist groups, no pallets of cash being delivered in the dark of night to fund their nuclear program. No war in the Ukraine, no sloppy exit from Afghanistan leaving behind dead US servicemen and women, 85B of equipment, and airstrip for the Chinese to take over..just the Russia Russia hoax Liar Liar Pantsuit on Fire paid 10M to British ex spy to make up a dirty dossier, that ended up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions to investigate that totally exonerated Trump. Oh did I forget they used federal agencies to spy on his campaign? The list goes on. What a disgrace, cheating at every interval, including the sham lawfare cases that have increased poll numbers for Trump. Looking forward to the end of Obama, the divider in Chief’s third term, everybody knows poor Biden isn’t making the decisions, as he’s led around, with pre arranged media questions, note cards to read from, sad seeing the elder abuse. World leaders in Europe having to lead him around, as he wanders off, shaking hands of people that don’t exist. Won’t be long before we are back to the good old days.
Make America Great Again.
Oh I forgot the most secure boarder. Another murder today by an illegal. More and more of that to happen unfortunately. Laken Riley et al. So sad. Fund boarder protection in Ukraine, but leave the southern boarder here in the US wide open. Lots more voters for the dems, why care about the disasters it causes. Even Obama the deporter in chief, didn’t subscribe to it.
@YoYo Pedro.
I have no problem with people endorsing their favorite sports teams, politicians, rock stars, whoever it may be. To get upset or triggered by someone else’s choice seems completely pointless to me. Who cares if someone like the Celtics or the Yankees, or the Dems or the Republicans. Different opinions, and choices.
Live and let live.
Just another whiny MAGA snowflake screaming “Look at me!”
Call your lawyer. Prove you have been injured by the airline. If so, sue them. If not STFU.
If I had two maga maggot hats, I would crap in one & cover it up with the other one.
Let’s try an experiment, I ‘ll wear my Abortion Pills hat on the next flight and see how they react.
@ Tim O’Brien — Yeah, and then the Orange Idiot handed out trillions of dollars to everyone under the sun through PPP loans and “stimulus” checks with his name on them. Why is anyone surprised that this caused infatlion? You know inflation occirs on a lag, and The Idiot caused all of it. Now, everyone convneniently blames the current president. But, you know, people are stupid. If you think inflation was bad, just wait if The Idiot is re-elected. I predict the worst inflation in US history with no Federal Reserve independednce to reign it in.
I don’t think DT fans are a protected class, so discrimination doesn’t apply in this situation.
I don’t understand it, I thought Chump was Pro-labor?
Like Ronald Regan lol