Protesters disrupt Trump’s rare outing to a D.C. restaurant
Washington – The rare outing of President Donald Trump in a local restaurant on Tuesday evening experienced a difficult start when he found himself face to face with demonstrators.
Trump, accompanied by Vice-President JD Vance, of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, of the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and other administration officials, arrived by motorcycle at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab less than a quarter of the White House.
Trump briefly spoke to journalists on the street outside the restaurant, where he met cheers and songs of “free Palestine”.
Once he was inside, when he greeted the restaurant’s customers, a group of demonstrators holding Palestinian flags began to sing: “DC Libre, Palestine Libre, Trump is the Hitler of our time”.
The Activist Group Code Pink claimed credit for demonstrations. In a video on his social media accounts, Trump is seen approaching demonstrators before standing in front of them and smiling. He then makes them leave for them to leave, and they are escorted outside the restaurant as a demonstrator says: “He terrorizes communities at DC”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the interaction.
Trump recently said that attendance at the DC restaurant had increased in the midst of his repression against crime in Washington, which included an increase in federal police and the deployment of armed National Guard troops. Before entering the restaurant, Trump said that the city was now “without crime” and that it will announce a similar repression in a new city on Wednesday.
“We wanted to take some of the members of the cabinet for dinner, and here we are – we are in the middle of the DC, who, as you know, in the past year, there was a very dangerous place, in the past 20 years, it was in fact very dangerous. And now there is practically no crime. We call it without crime,” Trump told journalists.
The appearance of the restaurant occurred a few days after a journalist asked Trump if he dinner, noting that he had not gone to the restaurant during one or the other of his president’s conditions, although he was regularly ate at the Trump International Hotel during his first four years in power.
In response, Trump said, “I could”, then asked the journalist: “Do you want me to prove you the opposite?”
Joe’s Stone Crab, who was first opened in Miami Beach, Florida, has locations in Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas and Washington, with crab dishes that exceed $ 100.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed what the group ordered on Tuesday evening.
“The president and his team appreciated the crab, the shrimp, the salad, the steak and the dessert. The food was phenomenal and the service was fantastic. Thank you, Joe! ” Leavitt said in a statement.
