ALLENTOWN, Pa. _ Several minutes into a flight last Tuesday bound for Allentown, Emma Baum said she was shocked when a man sitting near her began yelling at the passengers about President-elect Donald Trump, calling them "Hillary bitches."
Baum's posted a 45-second video to Facebook under the title "Didn't take long to notice that I'm back in 'Merica ... " By week's end, the video been shared more than 3 million times as of Friday night. Baum was thrust into the spotlight of political discourse with dozens of calls from national media.
The Delta Air Lines flight was traveling from Atlanta. Delta, on its Twitter page, apologized for the incident.
Baum, 21, who lives in Belize in Central America, said she was on her way to her hometown in Quakertown to visit her family.
She said she first noticed the man while waiting for the flight to board. The man chanted Trump's slogan several times in the airport terminal, shouting that the president-elect would "make America great again."
As they boarded the plane, Baum said she was seated next to the man and he again said several things about his support of Trump. Baum said that before the flight took off, she switched seats with someone behind her so he could sit next to his traveling companion.
Before the flight took off, Baum said she told the man she had been out of the country and asked him about the presidential election. As he jumped out of his seat to talk to her, she told him she was going to record him with her cellphone.
"He said, 'Go ahead! I want to tell everyone about Trump. I hope it goes viral,'" Baum said.
In the video, the man claps his hands, shouting to the passengers, "How many people, man?" He loudly claps his hands to a mostly silent audience.
One woman off-camera says, "We can't hear you," and the man points and claps.
"Donald Trump, baby!" he says. "We got some Hillary bitches es on this plane?
"Trump! It's your president," the man yells.
Baum said she was concerned about the man's behavior, and after several minutes, a flight attendant approached the man and took him off the plane. But the man later returned, she said.
"When he came back in, he said, 'This is what I get for being a patriot,'" Baum said.
There were no further outbursts from him during the flight.
After the flight landed, Baum said she reported the man's behavior to airport security and police. Both asked for copies of her video to identify the man.
She said her family had told her about the "craziness" of the election. But Baum, who is licensing the video, said she had no idea it would receive so much attention.
"I did have some people messaging me asking if I was anti-white, and that was disappointing," Baum said. "I just put it up and didn't expect any of this."
