As the Trump campaign prepares to settle down in the nation's capital for a second term, Washington, D.C.-area restaurants can't stay out of politics once again.
Food workers in the Beltway are prepared to deny service and cause other inconveniences to members of the incoming Trump administration, but this is not the first time the administration and its allies have had to deal with harassment at dinner. do not have.
In September 2018, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his wife were harassed at Fiora, an upscale Italian restaurant in Washington, D.C. Protesters confronted Cruz over his support for then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his controversial confirmation hearings. A video of protesters shouting at the couple, “We believe in survivors,” went viral. Mr. Cruz and his wife ended up leaving the restaurant due to an argument.
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Ted Cruz was heckled and kicked out of a Washington, D.C., restaurant in September 2018 by a group of protesters protesting the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Crush racist DC)
The incident was part of a broader wave of conflict involving Trump administration officials and allies that summer.
So in June 2018, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen met with protesters at MXDC Cocina Mexicana, a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., over the Trump administration's family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. We confronted each other. “Shame on you!” demonstrators shouted. He then called her a “villain” and forced her to leave.
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Trump known for his role in shaping immigration policy, recounted an incident that same month when he went to pick up an $80 sushi order from a restaurant near his apartment. As he left, the bartender followed him outside, called his name, and when Miller turned around, he held up two middle fingers. The New York Post reported at the time that he threw away the sushi, fearing that someone inside the restaurant had tampered with the food.
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President-elect Donald Trump. (Peter Kramer/NBC via Getty Images)
In June 2018, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave the restaurant because of her opposition to the Trump administration's harsh immigration policies. requested.
Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the capital said: Washingtonian this week He believed that resistance to Republican figures in progressive cities was inevitable and a matter of conscience.
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Demonstrators march in Los Angeles on November 12, 2016, in response to the upset over Republican Donald Trump's victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
“Do we expect the public to ignore RFK and not throw drinks in his face after a few mimosas at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning?” said Zach Hoffman, now the restaurant's manager. National Democratic Club.
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But not all liberal hospitality industry workers mentioned in the report intended to protest the incoming administration while working.
A bartender named Joseph said he was disappointed with the election results but could expect higher tips with more Republicans in Washington.
Fox News Digital's Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
