A restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, is facing backlash after its owner asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders to leave on June 22 because she works for President Donald Trump.
Following the incident, The Red Hen Restaurant was flooded with thousands of negative reviews online, causing the eatery’s rating on Yelp, a popular website for customer reviews, to plummet to two stars out of five.
The media caught wind of the incident after a restaurant employee who served Sanders posted about it on Facebook. Sanders addressed the controversy the next morning, explaining that she had politely departed the restaurant after the owner asked her to leave.
“Her actions say far more about her than about me,” Sanders wrote. “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.”
Sanders’s father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, criticized the restaurant for kicking out his daughter.
The incident at Red Hen comes days after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to leave a restaurant by protesters.
In a separate incident on June 22, a group of protesters showed up outside Nielsen’s townhouse and played sounds of crying children, while chanting “No justice, no sleep.”
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