Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Asked to Leave a Restaurant for Being Sarah Huckabee Sanders
It's getting hard these days to both enable Donald Trump and go out in public. Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen attracted a flock of protesters when she decided to get Mexican food after defending her boss' family separation policy. Trump staffers are complaining that no one wants to date them, just because they work to support an administration that's opposed to women's rights and un-imprisoned minorities.
Now, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is also finding that there are drawbacks to being a public face for an administration that locks up asylum-seekers and puts children in cages. A server at the the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia reported that they waited on Sanders and her family for a few minutes on Friday night before the owner asked Sanders to leave. On Saturday morning, the press secretary confirmed the story in a tweet:
It's very bold of Sanders to say that she treats people respect no matter what, as though her press briefings where she regularly berates reporters aren't on camera. It's also quite brazen of her to choose to tweet this from her official government account instead of her personal one, using the full weight of her authority as a member of the White House to target a private business owner. But she does exist in a world where calling someone a liar is morally worse than defending child detention camps, so we're working with a sliding scale here.
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Meanwhile, Sanders' dad would like you to remember that he, too, is on Twitter and unfit for human company. Mike Huckabee has long made a hobby of tweeting vaguely racist nonsense then harrumphing that nobody gets his jokes when people ask how they're funny or what the punchline is. But Saturday morning he graduated to full-on racial propaganda:
Both Huckabee and Sanders regularly cast themselves as victims of bigotry and intolerance, and there's no doubt that the incident at Red Hen will give them fresh material for terrible jokes, dismissive podium glares, and declarations that they're being targeted for their religious beliefs. But they don't give themselves enough credit—they've said and done plenty of things for people to find them abhorrent, regardless of their religion.
