{"id":145549,"date":"2018-06-23T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-secretary-kicked-out-of-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2018-06-23T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T23:37:00","slug":"trump-secretary-kicked-out-of-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/trump-secretary-kicked-out-of-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump secretary kicked out of restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, 13 April 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/EC15\/production\/_102173406_eb283a48-d7b3-43a2-8aeb-02f618358a07.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      Sarah Sanders said she would continue to treat those with opposing views &quot;respectfully&quot;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sanders tweeted that &quot;her actions say far more about her than about me&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Wilkinson said she believed Ms Sanders worked for an &quot;inhumane and unethical&quot; administration.<\/p>\n<p>She told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, &quot;farm-to-table&quot; restaurant after talking to her staff.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,&quot; she said she told them. &quot;They said yes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Both cases come amid increasing pressure on the US government over its controversial policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Migrant families separation: The big picture explained<\/li>\n<li>Who has said what about US border crisis<\/li>\n<li>Psychological impact on separated children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A decision by the administration to criminally prosecute every undocumented migrant crossing the border led to some 2,300 children being separated from their parents in May and June, and sparked a global wave of outrage.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has now halted family separations but says he remains committed to the &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policy.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the Red Hen&#039;s decision said that it was discriminatory. <\/p>\n<p>However, others compared the restaurant&#039;s decision to a recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, in a case seen by many conservatives as a test for religious freedom.<\/p>\n<figure>                              Image Copyright @PressSec               @PressSec                      <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>       <\/figure>\n<figure>                   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter post by @PressSec: 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. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1010536237457924096~\/news\/world-us-canada-44588939\"\/>Image Copyright @PressSec                   @PressSec                              <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>           <\/figure>\n<p>The restaurant&#039;s Facebook profile has seen a surge of one and five star ratings since news of the incident broke on Saturday, while its online reviews have become increasingly polarised.<\/p>\n<p>One negative review of the restaurant online read: &quot;I was dining at the Red Hen and witnessed them rudely refuse service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I was disgusted and appalled by the incident. I will never eat at this establishment again.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Terrible ownership and management: bigoted and prejudiced,&quot; wrote another reviewer.<\/p>\n<p>But thousands of other users supported the decision. One wrote: &quot;Love this place. Morally superior and the food must be delicious...&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Ms Wilkinson said that she asked Ms Sanders to talk to her outside before explaining &quot;that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>She said Ms Sanders immediate response was: &quot;&#039;That&#039;s fine. I&#039;ll go.&#039;&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p065nrmn.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionComedian Michelle Wolf tore into Sarah Sanders at the White House Correspondents&#039; Dinner in April<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ms Sanders&#039; father, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, weighed in by describing the restaurant&#039;s actions as &quot;bigotry&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours earlier, he caused controversy by tweeting a joke, which some people interpreted as suggesting that Minority Leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi - a senior Democrat who has spoken out against border separations - supports the violent MS-13 gang.<\/p>\n<figure>                              Image Copyright @GovMikeHuckabee               @GovMikeHuckabee                      <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>       <\/figure>\n<figure>                   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twitter post by @GovMikeHuckabee: Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House. \" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeHuckabee\/status\/1010497564435730434~\/news\/world-us-canada-44588939\"\/>Image Copyright @GovMikeHuckabee                   @GovMikeHuckabee                              <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>           <\/figure>\n<p>President Trump has repeatedly made references to the gang, which operates across Central America, to justify his tough stance on illegal immigration and border control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ReutersImage caption Sarah Sanders said she would continue to treat those with opposing views &quot;respectfully&quot; White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}