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We analytically and numerically study the hydrodynamic propagation of aprecessing jet in the context of tidal disruption events (TDEs) where thestar's angular momentum is misaligned with the black hole spin. We assume thata geometrically thick accretion disk undergoes Lense-Thirring precession aroundthe black hole spin axis and that the jet is aligned with the instantaneousdisk angular momentum. At large spin-orbit misalignment angles, the duty cyclealong a given direction that the jet sweeps across is much smaller than unity.The faster jet and slower disk wind alternately fill a given angular region,which leads to strong shock interactions between the two. We show thatprecessing jets can only break out of the wind confinement if the misalignmentangle is less than a few times the jet opening angle. The very small event rateof observed jetted TDEs is then explained by the condition of double alignment:both the stellar angular momentum and the observer's line of sight are nearlyaligned with the black hole spin. In most TDEs, the jets are initially chokedby the disk wind and may only break out later when the disk eventually alignsitself with the spin axis due to the viscous damping of the precession. Suchlate-time jets may produce delayed radio rebrightening as seen in manyoptically selected TDEs.

Misaligned precessing jets are choked by the accretion disk wind