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A Frontier Airlines passenger demanded that a plane be returned to the gate at San Diego International Airport, shouting that she was a “president” of the United States and a “sovereign ruler” in government.

The unnamed passenger was captured in a viral TikTok video as she boarded a flight from San Diego to Las Vegas, apparently still lying on the airport floor while loudly raising her voice at a flight attendant and other passengers.

The person who recorded the video, which has been viewed over 400,000 times as of Monday (October 14), said the woman's screams were because she left her phone in the gate area and gave it to Frontier Airlines Fault.

The woman, who stood up near her seat and appeared distressed, shouted something to a flight attendant in the aisle.

“If I was white and wore a suit, you would stop the damn plane,” she shouted in the video posted Sunday. “Now laugh, I’m the president of this whole damn country. Watch the damn TV news. That’s a damn good word.”

“Yes, I have to get off this plane, and I'm telling you straight up that you should never meet someone because of the color of their skin again,” she continued.

She further alleged that Frontier Airlines had been involved in criminal activity on other flights with the airline in previous years.

“You had enough time. I see Frontier doing illegal things several times. I've been riding you for eight years.

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“Don’t tell me. They had enough time to stop and tell the pilot not to leave. You just released him from the bay. I saw it from the window. “I know it was in my heart,” she said.

A flight attendant began to explain something to the passenger that wasn't clearly understood in the audio of the video, but the woman responded to the flight attendant: “That's a lie from hell.”

She asked for the flight attendant's name before telling the rest of the cabin that she was “a confirmed sovereign ruler here in the government.”

“I own seven continents,” the woman added, before her fellow passengers on the two-and-a-half-hour flight began laughing at the woman.

“Keep laughing, make sure you’re right on a boat,” she said, turning to the other passengers.

“We just send people out for a nice expedition group. Whatever comes, goes, the time is now. Keep laughing and watch what happens – you’ll be as dead as the battery in your watch.”

It is unclear why the woman made these claims or whether the flight was delayed due to the incident.

The Independent Frontier Airlines has reached out for comment.

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