"Ivanka and Jared at JFK flying commercial. My husband chasing them down to harass them."Lasner posted a photo of Ivanka at the moment Goldstein got in her face, with a caption via Twitter, "Ivanka just before @JetBlue kicked us off our flight when a flt attendant overheard my husband expressing displeasure about flying w/ Trumps."
"Ivanka and Jared on our flight. My husband expressed displeasure in a calm tone."
"JetBlue staff overheard and they kicked us off the plane."
After the incident, JetBlue released a statement which read in part, "If the crew determines that a customer is causing conflict on the aircraft, the customer will be asked to deplane. In this instance, our team worked to re-accommodate the party on the next available flight."
Less than eight weeks before this surprise attack on Ivanka, Scott McCartney published a story in the Wall Street Journal on the rise of passengers' bad behavior on commercial aircraft. These public displays of vulgarity include placing dirty shoes on clean seats, kicking, on purpose, the seat of the passenger in front of you, trimming fingernails and leaving the clippings on the floor, and, that perennial favorite, struggling to cram your carry-on into an already overloaded overhead bin.
Comment: All the stress that accompanies the experience of flying these days still doesn't excuse the exceptional rudeness displayed by Daniel Goldstein. It is the very type of 'agressive self-centeredness'.