Social media users took to their keyboards Saturday to react to a newly surfaced video that purportedly shows a Southwest Airlines pilot concluding an announcement to passengers by saying “Let’s go Brandon” over the plane’s intercom system.
It happened Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, according to an Associated Press journalist who said she was on the flight.
“Until and unless @SouthwestAir fires its #LetsGoBrandon pilot I will never fly on that airline,” wrote actor/filmmaker Andy Ostroy.
“The news coverage of the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ chant being repeated by a Southwest Airlines pilot brings to mind other Trumpian things that are permeating regular life,” author Sarah Posner wrote in a tweet.
“Vulgarity stand-in from @SouthwestAir cockpit,” wrote Washington Post editor Cathleen Decker, who linked to reporting from the AP.
Will Bunch, an opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, mocked Southwest in a tweet:
YouTube personality Jim Heath claimed that Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly “has officially made @SouthwestAir the Trumpy airline.”
“Its pilots now giving the ‘f*ck you Biden’ or ‘let’s go Brandon’ GOP line during the flight,” Heath added. “I’ve always loved flying Southwest. Don’t plan on doing it ever again.
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