Conservative TV star films tense encounter with Southwest worker after his flight was canceled

Daily Mail​

28-07-2025

Conservative TV star Alex Stein videoed himself in a tense exchange with a Southwest worker after his flight was canceled and he asked for a hotel room.
Stein, 38, shared a clip of him attempting to converse with an airline worker at a help desk on Sunday inside Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
According to Stein, his flight had been canceled due to the weather and had been enquiring about a hotel voucher for the night.
He said: 'Southwest you won't help me at all even though you guys canceled the flight. I'm stuck here in DC and they will not help me at all. I don't know why Southwest won't help me.'
Stein aimed his remarks at a help desk worker as he continued: 'I'm stuck here and I don't know what to do.'
He then claimed that the Southwest worker who he filmed then threatened to call the cops on him over his reaction.
It then cuts to an officer approaching him, Stein can be heard saying: 'I'm just filming for my protection, they canceled my flight, I asked for a hotel room.
'I started filming the guy and then he said I'm calling the cops', the officer then advises that staff cannot hand out hotel vouchers over weather cancellations.
Another officer then approached him and advises him that he is doing nothing illegal, the officer adds: 'You're not detained, you're all good.'
During his conversation with the second officer, Stein told him that the airline had rebooked his flight for the following day.
He later posted to social media saying that he had been 'trying to speak up for all the passengers on my flight'.
The company then responded to the clip asking for more information from him, to which Stein said: 'I love you guys so much at Southwest!
'I think the supervisor was under a ton of pressure today with all the cancellations but I was just trying to stick up for all the families that were stranded in DC on their summer vacations.'
Not long after the incident, Stein shared another picture to his social media showing him inside a Buffalo Wild Wings and said that he was 'ok'.
Daily Mail has approached Southwest Airlines for comment on the clip.
Stein is a social media personality, Blaze TV contributor and far-right activist notorious for provoking outrageous situations for online content.
Stein told the officers that the airline had rebooked his flight for the following day
Stein previously made headlines after he allegedly harassed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the Capitol in 2022.
The congresswoman was approaching the steps with an aide as police stood by during the exchange.
'I love you, AOC, you're my favorite!' Stein out called. 'You look very beautiful in that dress.'
He caught the 32-year-old's attention when he made a lewd comment about her body and she changed course to approach him.
'Look how sexy she looks in that dress,' Stein yells again as she reaches the top of the steps. 'Whooo. I love it AOC. Hot hot hot like a tamale.'
'I was actually walking over to deck him because if no one will protect us then I'll do it myself,' Ocasio-Cortez wrote of the incident on Twitter later, 'but I needed to catch a vote more than a case today.'