President Donald Trump on Monday morning wrote on Twitter that the restaurant in Virginia where White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied from service is “dirty” and “needs a paint job.”
“The Red Hen Restaurant 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,” the President wrote on Twitter. “I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!”
The President’s remarks come after Sanders confirmed over the weekend that the owner of a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, demanded from her to leave while she dined out with a group of people.
“Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me,” Sanders wrote on Twitter Saturday.
“I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so,” she added.
The owner of the restaurant, Stephanie Wilkinson, in an interview with The Washington Post, said that she asked Sanders directly to leave the establishment.
“I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation,” Wilkinson told the Post.
Wilkinson said Sanders quickly agreed to leave.
Last week another incident occurred when protesters confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Washington, D.C., restaurant over the administration’s immigration policy.
Meanwhile, White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller was also targeted in a separate incident at a D.C. restaurant last week.
All three of the incidents are part of the fallout from Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy at the southern border which was announced in April by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
However, last week Trump signed an executive order allowing families to remain together.
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