Washington – Trump Trash Talks Restaurant That Booted Sanders

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    Passerby gather to take photos and observe the scene in front of the Red Hen Restaurant, Saturday, June 23, 2018, in Lexington, Va. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday in a tweet that she was booted from the Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump. Sanders said she was told by the owner of The Red Hen that she had to "leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left."(AP Photo/Daniel Lin)Washington – President Donald Trump on Monday trash-talked a Virginia restaurant that asked his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to leave because she worked for his administration.

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    Trump, in a Monday morning tweet, said that The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia “should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders.”

    “I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!” added Trump, an admitted germophobe, who has said he prefers eating at fast food chains rather than independent eateries because he trusts them more.

    Images of the restaurant, a three-hour-drive from Washington, online appear to show no evidence of serious disrepair, with clean-looking green awnings and white paint on the doors and trim.

    Sanders tweeted over the weekend that she was asked to leave the restaurant by its owner Friday evening because she worked for Trump. Sanders said she “politely left” and that the owner’s “actions say far more about her than about me.”

    The restaurant’s co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday, but she told The Washington Post that her reasons for booting Sanders included the concerns of employees who were gay and knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar transgender people from serving in the military.

    Several other Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, have been confronted in public in recent days amid intense fury over an administration policy that led to a spike in the number of migrant children being separated from their parents after crossing the border illegally.

    Nielsen cut short a working dinner at a Mexican restaurant last week after protesters shouted, “Shame!” until she left. Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller was accosted by someone at a different Mexican restaurant, who called him “a fascist,” according to the New York Post.

    The displays of hostility have set off a fierce debate about whether politics should play a role in how administration officials are treated in public, with Sanders’s father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, denouncing his daughter’s treatment as “bigotry.”


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    qazxc
    qazxc
    5 years ago

    Gift certificates for $10 and up are available on the restaurant’s website and for a $1 service fee you can have it mailed directly to any address, including Donald J Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500

    5 years ago

    Well said from our president.

    “She told The Washington Post that her reasons for booting Sanders included the concerns of employees who were gay and knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar transgender people from serving in the military.”

    What a lousy excuse. You think because she is anti LGBT serving in the millitraty therefore, waiter who Is LGBT is somehow threatened? Such a silly argument. They only have one reason they chucked her because of their intolerant anti Trump ideology. That’s unaccpetable.

    And no its not the same a gay baker not baking for a gay wedding. This wasn’t a “trump event” where the Trump ideology was at stake. Its akin to a baker not selling a danish to someone who is gay. And that would be iillegal too.

    Hope sanders sues thier brains off. make thier life miserable.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    I do not see why the lady would have a foot to stand on in court. Within the limits of the law, a business may serve who they like.

    On the other hand, it was a further coarsening of the political debate that I do not support. It is important we be civil to one another.

    Finally, it seems to me the President’s comments do harm the business and might very well be actionable. I certainly hope nobody takes his comments as an encouragement to physical violence. That would be very bad.

    favish
    favish
    5 years ago

    may it be the will of hashem they go out of business!! amen

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    They wont serve her because she is affiliated with Trump? FEH

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    5 years ago

    Good, that fat lady needs to go on a diet.

    Vvvvv
    Vvvvv
    5 years ago

    The phony crying libs who claim to care so much for the poor immigrant children whose parents don’t give a hoot for them, while they treat their fellow AMERICANS like dirt! Where were these liars when the same issues at the border went on under obama?????

    5 years ago

    To #4 - Maybe in Saudi Arabia, they can get away with that policy; however, in the USA, there is a federal statute entitled “Public Accommodations”, which was passed by Congress, as part of the Civil Rights law of 1964. Patrons cannot be illegally denied service at a business, which is open to the public.