NEW YORK CITY: Married Gay Couple Ejected From JetBlue Flight For “Verbally Harassing” Ivanka Trump

The Associated Press reports:

Two people were removed from a JetBlue plane after one of them began verbally berating Ivanka Trump and her family. They were flying coach on a JetBlue flight out of JFK when the incident happened.

According to published reports, the passenger started screaming “Your father is ruining our country…. Why is she on our flight?” TMZ reports that Ivanka ignored the passenger and tried distracting her children with crayons.

Matthew Lasner, a Hunter College professor, tweeted that he and his husband were removed from the flight. Lasner tweeted they were removed after his husband began “expressing displeasure in a calm tone.”

Below is Lasner’s now-deleted tweet.

Man kicked off JetBlue flight after demanding to know why Ivanka Trump is flying commercial https://t.co/hd9xKkBPEj pic.twitter.com/CbY69oAt1S

— Jezebel (@Jezebel) December 22, 2016