Airports are increasingly becoming a battleground between pro- and anti-Trump forces. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been featured in videos, broadcast in airports, that blame Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown, which some airports have refused to show.
“Major airports across the country — including in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta — are refusing to play a video featuring Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the impacts of the government shutdown,” ABC News reported. “Many of the airport representatives said their facility’s policies bar the showing of political content. Some also pointed to the Hatch Act, a law that restricts the political activities of federal employees as well as some state and local employees who are involved in or work in federally funded programs.”
Then, this week, hackers managed to play anti-Trump messages in several other airports.
Per CNN, “unauthorized pro-Palestinian political messages praising Hamas and attacking President Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister were broadcast through public address systems in terminals at four airports in North America on Tuesday.”
This is absolutely unacceptable and understandably scares travelers.
The @FAANews and I are coordinating with @FlyHIA to help get to the bottom of this hack. https://t.co/3rOKbanfVw
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) October 16, 2025
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“Turkish Hacker Cyber Islam” can be heard on the message, which was denounced by Homeland Security Secretary Sean Duffy.
The messages, which appeared to have been broadcast via hacking of the public-address systems at the airports, were heard at Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania, as well as multiple airports in Canada, including Kelowna International Airport and Victoria International Airport in British Columbia and Windsor International Airport in Ontario.
CYBER SECURITY ALERT: A hacker calling himself “Turkish Cyber Islam” hijacked the Harrisburg International Airport PA system — blasting anti-Trump & anti-Netanyahu messages 👇🗣️ pic.twitter.com/PCrKF6h3y5
— AJD (@AshleyJDiMella) October 16, 2025
It’s not clear if the hacker was actually Turkish, or really representing a group called “Cyber Islam.”
Per Fox 43 in Pennsylvania, “the airport stated that it was a ‘political message,’ but did not contain any threats towards airlines, passengers, airport employees or the airport itself, according to HIA.” In Harrisburg, the PA system was shut off following the hack.
“You had to do a double-take and ask yourself if what you were hearing was actually real,” passenger Glen Brown told CNN. “The real question I have is, if they hack the paging system in an international airport, what else are they tunneling into?
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