Trumpworld Mocks Outrage at Shock Viral Flyover — But Blue Angels Chief Admits It Was ‘Unsafe’

Even as Trump officials and Trumpworld personalities mock outrage over a flyover that went viral, Blue Angels team leader Capt. Adam Bryan told reporters that the pass was “unsafe.”

The team went viral for a stunning low-altitude pass over a beach in Pensacola Beach, Florida that sparked an investigation. But President Donald Trump’s Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, announced Friday that there would be no reprimands, following cues from other figures supportive of the maneuver who cast the criticism as unpatriotic.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who blocked disciplinary action over the Kid Rock flyover and another dangerous maneuver involving six Apache attack helicopters in South Carolina earlier this year, wrote that “The flyovers will continue until morale improves.”

The Trump White House posted an AI-generated meme of the flyover with the caption “It’s okay to love America.”

Other MAGA figures also got in on the act.

But in an interview following the incident, Bryan admitted the stunt was unsafe:

CAPT. ADAM BRYAN: Yeah, so you know every flight we do, whether it goes incredibly well or we don’t have the best flight, we look at it and we debrief it every day.

During yesterday’s circle and arrival maneuvers, one of our pilots found himself over the beach line, over a crowd in an unsafe situation.

The safety of our flight demonstration, the safety of the crowd that goes out there and watches it every night is the utmost of what we do. We work day in and day out and very hard from the start of our training to ensure safety is paramount for everything.

So we’ll have a heavy review of what happened yesterday to ensure that, one, we don’t put ourselves in unsafe situations again, and two, that we learn from it.

And that’s the most important thing that we do from anything that happens out there, is that we learned from the things that go on and we ourselves better every day.

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