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Washington, DC area restaurants once again won’t be free from politics as the Trump team prepares to settle in the nation’s capital for a second term.
Food workers inside the Beltway are poised to deny service and cause other inconvenience to members of the incoming Trump administration, but this isn’t the first time the administration and allies have faced harassment while sitting in dinner
In September 2018, Senator Ted CruzR-Texas and his wife were mobbed at Fiola, an upscale Italian restaurant in Washington, D.C. Protesters confronted them over Cruz’s support of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during his controversial confirmation hearings. Videos circulated online showing protesters shouting at the couple, chanting: “We believe in survivors.” Cruz and his wife eventually left the restaurant because of the altercation.
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Ted Cruz was kicked out of a restaurant in Washington DC by a group of protesters opposing the US Supreme Court confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018. (Smash Racism DC)
This incident was part of a wider wave of clashes between Trump administration officials and allies during the summer of that year.
As such, in June 2018, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted by protesters at MXDC Cocina Mexicana, a Mexican restaurant in Washington, DC, during the Trump administration family separation policy at the US-Mexico border. Protesters chanted, “Shame on you!” and called her a “villain”, forcing her to leave.
Trump’s top adviser, Stephen Miller, known for his role in shaping immigration policy, recounted an incident when he went to pick up an $80 sushi order from a restaurant near his apartment that same day month As he was leaving, the waiter followed him outside, called his name, and when Miller turned around, gave him a double middle finger. He threw away the sushi out of fear that someone at the restaurant had tampered with the food, the New York Post reported at the time.
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President-elect Donald Trump. (Peter Kramer/NBC via Getty Images)
Also in June 2018, the owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave, citing opposition to Trump’s hard-line administration. immigration policies.
Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the nation’s capital said the Washingtonian this week that resistance to Republican figures in the progressive city was inevitable and a matter of conscience.
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Protesters march in reaction to Republican Donald Trump’s upset election over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential race on November 12, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
“Do you expect the masses to ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not throw a drink in his face?” said Zac Hoffman, a Washington, D.C. restaurant veteran who is now manager of the National Democratic Club.
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However, not all liberal hospitality workers in the report planned to protest the incoming administration while doing their jobs.
A bartender named Joseph said that while he was disappointed by the election results, he was looking forward to more advice with more Republicans in Washington.
Fox News Digital’s Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
