Blue Angels flyover ignites social media; Hegseth, Eric Trump respond

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and different Trump allies took to societal media connected Thursday aft the Navy's Blue Angels drew wide attraction with a flyover supra a Florida beach.

Video shared online showed beachgoers cheering arsenic 2 Blue Angels jets with the formation objection squad made a debased walk implicit Pensacola Beach connected Wednesday. Social media reactions varied, from those who praised the flyover and wished they could person seen it successful person, to those who criticized the stunt.

A Blue Angels pitchy conducts a debased walk implicit Pensacola Beach connected Wednesday. (Partridge Drones via Facebook)

Hegseth, however, posted connected X, "The flyovers volition proceed until morale improves."

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Video shared online showed beachgoers cheering arsenic 2 Blue Angels jets made a debased walk implicit Pensacola Beach connected Wednesday. (Partridge Drones via Facebook)

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell shared a photograph of 1 of the craft performing a maneuver during the flyover and wrote, "Carry connected Patriots."

Eric Trump besides responded by sharing an ABC News study connected X, writing, "Can't basal the manufactured outrage by the low-T mainstream media. This was undoubtedly the item of these people's day…"

The ABC News study Eric Trump shared said Navy officials confirmed successful a connection to the outlet that Blue Angels enactment is "reviewing the circumstances surrounding the maneuver and conducting a thorough information review."

The Blue Angels did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

The flyover came during Wednesday morning's yearly "Breakfast with the Blues" event, which marks the commencement of Red, White and Blues Week and gives spectators a accidental to ticker the Navy's formation objection squadron signifier implicit the Gulf Coast.

Local quality outlet WALA-TV reported that this year's lawsuit drew 1 of its largest crowds successful caller memory, with the Casino Beach and Quietwater parking tons filling by astir 7 a.m. Thousands lined the formation arsenic the Blue Angels spent astir 2 hours practicing up of this weekend's aerial show.

Brenda Bennett, who has attended the lawsuit for decades, told the paper she had ne'er seen a assemblage this large.

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"I've been coming since 1997 and this is the champion kept secret, but I deliberation the secret's retired due to the fact that there's much radical present than normally," Bennett said.

Video shared online showed beachgoers cheering arsenic a Blue Angels pitchy made a debased walk implicit Pensacola Beach connected Wednesday. (Partridge Drones via Facebook)

Theresa Smith and Sheri Marinovich said they had to parkland farther distant than accustomed due to the fact that of the crowds but said the other locomotion was worthy it.

"They're showing out," the brace told the newspaper. "They emotion to enactment connected a amusement for the meal crowd. You consciousness similar they're conscionable truthful overmuch person and we get to perceive them talking connected the vigor and they bash antithetic maneuvers than they bash for the show."

People gathered astatine Pensacola Beach to photograph and video Blue Angels jets conducting a flyover connected Wednesday. (Partridge Drones via Facebook)

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Many spectators told the outlet the lawsuit felt particularly meaningful pursuing the caller America 250 celebrations. Bennett said she hopes Americans proceed celebrating "our state that we person present successful the United States."

The Blue Angels are scheduled to signifier again Thursday earlier nationalist performances Friday and Saturday.