Southwest investigates pilot for use of anti-Biden phrase

WASHINGTON – Southwest Airlines said Sunday it is conducting an interior probe aft 1 of its pilots utilized a operation that's go a stand-in for insulting President Joe Biden during the pilot's greeting to passengers implicit the plane's nationalist code strategy past week.

The hose announced its probe aft The Associated Press reported the incidental successful a communicative astir the increasing usage of the operation “Let's go, Brandon,” an aphorism successful blimpish circles for a vulgarity targeting Biden.

The pilot's usage of the operation drew audible gasps from immoderate passengers connected the formation from Houston to Albuquerque connected Friday. An AP newsman was connected the flight.

The hose said successful a connection it would “address the concern straight with immoderate Employee progressive portion continuing to punctual each Employees that nationalist look of idiosyncratic opinions portion connected work is unacceptable."

“Southwest does not condone Employees sharing their idiosyncratic governmental opinions portion connected the occupation serving our Customers, and 1 Employee’s idiosyncratic position should not beryllium interpreted arsenic the viewpoint of Southwest and its corporate 54,000 Employees," the connection said.

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The operation took disconnected aft an Oct. 2 incidental astatine a NASCAR contention successful Alabama won by Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old operator who was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter.

The assemblage down Brown was chanting something, and the newsman suggested they were saying “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. But it became progressively wide to viewers that they were saying, “F—- Joe Biden.”

Some conservatives person pointed to the occurrence arsenic an illustration of U.S. media covering for Biden. Since then, the operation has been uttered connected the House level by a Republican lawmaker and utilized often by Biden critics connected societal media and astatine protests to slam the Democratic president.

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