Lil Pump banned from flying JetBlue airways after refusing to wear a mask. Airline’s stating that he will not be able to flay with them anymore. Rapper also posted anti-mask, COVID-denying video online Sunday.
-“All 2020, 2021, I’m not wearing no mask,” he said assuredly in a video posted on Twitter by DatPiff on Sunday. “I don’t gotta wear no f—ing mask, bitch. Corona’s fake! Bye!”
Lil Pump says Covid is fake and he’s not wearing a mask. pic.twitter.com/xUEb2FXlAL
— DatPiff (@DatPiff) December 27, 2020
According to TMZ customer flying Saturday from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles “became verbally abusive with crew members, and also took off his face covering mid-flight,” -tabloid reported. . At some point, someone on the plane asked Pump to wear the mask, Pump refused and later began sneezing and coughing into a blanket, which TMZ notes could have been deliberate.
The 20-year-old rapper eventually complied with the airline, but the damage had apparently already been done. There also was police on standby but it appears he wasn’t arrested.