Sarah Huckabee Sanders ordered out of Virginia restaurant
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was booted from a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump.
Sanders tweeted that she was told Friday by the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, that she had to “leave because I work for @ POTUS and I politely left.”
“I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so,” Sanders said in the tweet from her official account.
The restaurant’s co- owner Stephanie Wilkinson told The Washington Post that her staff had called her to report Sanders was in the restaurant. She cited several reasons, including the concerns of employees who were gay and knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar transgender people from the military.
“Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,” Wilkinson told her staff, she said. “They said yes.”
Wilkinson said that she talked to Sanders privately and that Sanders’ response was immediate: “That’s fine. I’ll go.”