The woman in the video admits that she is upset that the young man said that he came to Washington to celebrate the inauguration. He said that she asked him if he was “here to cheer or protest.” Koteskey replied he was merely in town to “celebrate democracy.” He says that she immediately began to abuse him verbally.
The woman demanded that she not be seated next to the Trump supporter and continued to berate the man with statements like “You pretend you have the moral high ground but you put that man’s finger on the nuclear button.” She added “That man doesn’t believe in climate change. Do you believe in gravity? Did you know gravity is just a theory?” She is also quoted as saying “And I’m entitled to get drunk and puke in your lap! I’m going to throw up right in your lap! You make me sick! Don’t talk to me! Don’t look at me! Don’t you dare even put your arm on that rest. You disgust me! You should be ashamed of yourself! You put a maniac’s finger on the button” (assuming she means nukes). You are a bigot. You should get off this plane!”
Other passengers supported the young man and cheered when the woman was finally escorted off the plane with her husband.
It is a scene that captures the concern I raised earlier of the level of hate and blind rage revealed this week in America’s War of the Roses.
I suggest booking a flight for the Trump supporter and anti-Trump activists in these two stories and requiring them to fly to Asia together on a 14 hour flight.