Over the weekend a Lexington, Virginia restaurant went viral after the owner asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family to leave the premises — which the White House Press Secretary confirmed on Twitter the following morning, adding gasoline to the fire. Under normal circumstances, things would have calmed down by now, but since we’re not living in normal times, President Trump has now weighed in on Twitter — accusing the Red Hen restaurant of being “dirty.”
“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,” Trump tweeted early Monday. “I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!”
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. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
As if it wasn’t already abundantly clear that we’re living in the weirdest timeline, the President of the United States is now feuding with Jimmy Fallon and a restaurant he’s never been to. Considering that Trump has no room to criticize a restaurant — not to mention that a president has many more important issues to concern himself with — the rest of Twitter jumped in to justifiably ridicule his tweet.
Wow this guy really hates this restaurant pic.twitter.com/IiVEPDnNrQ
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) June 25, 2018
"Hello sorry I need the rest of the day off from work. Why? The President is screaming FILTHY WINDOWS at restaurants on twitter and I've lost my entire fucking mind"
— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) June 25, 2018
The president, whose own golf club was cited for multiple inspection violations, is on Twitter badmouthing the cleanliness of a restaurant he’s never been to.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) June 25, 2018
“We ejected your press secretary because of her support for your policies which are cruel and discriminatory”
“Oh yeah?? Well, your windows look dirty, from what I can see in photos on the internet!”
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) June 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/joshkeown/status/1011232767722573824
Some days it's just too easy @realDonaldTrump. #RedHen #Maralago pic.twitter.com/sluCtTneWz
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) June 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/1011246191747596288
https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1011214843104280577
https://twitter.com/susie_meister/status/1011249797267800064
1) ethics violation
2) everybody eat at the Red Hen https://t.co/ljRM5uXIbW— rabia O'chaudry (@rabiasquared) June 25, 2018
The Mar A Lago health code violation clapback is amazing.
Also a guy died and a bunch of firefighters got hurt because Trump refused, for decades, to put sprinklers in his Jenga-ass mafia concrete Sauron tower.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 25, 2018
The President has now been tougher on a privately-owned American restaurant than he has against white supremacists or Russia, the country that actively disrupted our last election. Happy Monday!
— Arby’s Provocateur (@SamGrittner) June 25, 2018
It’s worth pointing out that despite Trump’s executive order last week, over 2,300 migrant children are still being detained in camps along the border. But sure, let’s fight with a restaurant instead of figuring out a way to reunite them with their families.