Trump named TIME's Person of the Year in 2024
President-elect Donald Trump was named Time magazine's 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday morning. The “Fox & Friends” co-hosts reacted to the announcement, reacting to what they called the “Trump effect” as the majority of Americans feel hopeful ahead of the new year.
food workers Washington DChas promised to deny service or cause other inconveniences when members of the incoming Trump administration dine out for the next four years.
Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the capital said: Washingtonian He believed that resistance to Republican figures in progressive cities was inevitable and a matter of conscience.
“Do you expect the public to ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate after a few mimosas on a Sunday morning and not throw drinks in his face?” DC said Zach Hoffman, a restaurant veteran who is now a manager for the National Democratic Party. club.
In the report, bartenders and servers pledged to avoid certain officials or perform other small acts of resistance against these figures in order to take back “power.”
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Restaurant workers in Washington, D.C., have been promised by the Trump administration that they won't be welcome to eat out for the next four years. (St. Petersburg)
“In theory, this person has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes for your entree,” said Nancy, a bartender at a high-end restaurant.
“For us as workers, there are many opportunities to not necessarily ruin someone's life, but to feel like we are taking back our power. “It feels like a victory,” she continued.
Nancy said she would refuse service to certain Trump administration officials. She claimed that if her employer tried to coerce her, she would quit “on the spot.”
“There's power in letting people know that you're not happy with the situation, and it doesn't necessarily have to be this big dramatic show,” she said. “It only takes a small amount of resistance, and those small resistances can be felt by other people, and hopefully feel empowered to follow through on their beliefs in the same way.”
Susannah Van Looy, a server and manager at Buechert Saloon in the Capitol, also vowed to refuse service to Trump administration officials who she felt held moral views contrary to her own.
The Capitol Building as seen from the National Mall on Friday, August 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Aaron Schwartz/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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“I personally refuse to serve anyone in office that I know is a sex trafficker or is trying to deport millions of people,” she said. Ta.
“It's not like, 'Oh, we don't like the Republican Party.' It's just that this person has moral beliefs that strongly disagree with mine, and I don't feel comfortable serving them.” I feel it,” Van Rooy added.
One anonymous host at a high-end restaurant said he looked up every person in the Trump administration online to find out who they were and would give them a bad table if they came in.
“We only serve bad tables, but otherwise guarantee decent and courteous service,” she continued. “It feels like the fact that they get a bad table is nothing compared to the harm they do.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 12: Donald Trump speaks at a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) reception after being named Time's Person of the Year for the second time on December 12, 2024 in New York City. The next president. . (Photo by Spencer Pratt/Getty Images)
But not all Liberal workers mentioned in the report intended to protest the incoming government while working.
A bartender named Joseph said he was disappointed with the election results but could expect higher tips with more Republicans in Washington.
“I think the average tip from Republicans, at least that I and my colleagues are aware of, is closer to 30%. I'd be surprised if it's over 20% for Democrats,” he said, noting that Republicans tend to pay more for upkeep. Some regular customers added that the average price tends to be low.
The comments evoke memories of when Trump first took office as president, when Republican officials were harassed while dining at a restaurant in the Washington, D.C., area.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary at the time, and her girlfriend. family was kicked out Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen was heckled and harassed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., in 2018 at a restaurant in Virginia.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of a Virginia restaurant in 2018 while serving as President Trump's press secretary. (Getty Images)
Months later, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife were also chased out of a Washington, D.C., restaurant by left-wing protesters.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; encouraged supporters To hit back at the Trump administration after two incidents. Trump said at the time that current administration officials defending Trump “know what they're doing is wrong,” and that they hope to soon appear in public peacefully and without harassment. He said he would not be able to show up. She later recanted that statement.
FOX News' Bradford Betts contributed to this report.
