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President-elect Donald Trump was named Time Magazine's 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday morning. The “Fox & Friends” co-hosts reacted to the announcement and what they call the “Trump effect” as the majority of Americans are optimistic heading into the new year.
Food workers in Washington, DCvowed to refuse service and cause other harassment to members of the incoming Trump administration when they dine out for the next four years.
said industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the nation's capital Washington Resistance from progressive city Republican figures was inevitable and a matter of conscience.
“Do you expect the crowd to just ignore eating at Le Diplomat on a Sunday morning after having a few mimosas and not throwing their drink in their face?” said Zach Hoffman, a veteran D.C. restauranteur who is now an NDP director. club.
In the report, bartenders and servers promised to avoid certain officials or use other small acts of resistance against these figures to regain their “power.”
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Restaurant workers in Washington, D.C., promised that Trump officials will not feel welcome dining out for the next four years. (Istock)
“In theory, this person has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your main course,” Nancy, Fine dining waiterHe said.
“There's a lot of opportunity for us as workers to feel like we're taking our power back, while not necessarily ruining someone's life. Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like a small win for us,” she continued.
Nancy said she would refuse service to some Trump officials. If her employer tried to force her, she claims she would quit “immediately.”
“There is power in announcing that you are uncomfortable with a situation, and it doesn't have to be this big dramatic display,” she said. “It's just little bits of resistance that are accumulating, little bits of resistance that others will see and hopefully feel empowered to stand on those convictions as well.”
Susanna Van Roy, a server and manager at Boschert Salon on Capitol Hill, also vowed to refuse service to Trump officials who she felt had moral views that conflicted with her own.
The Capitol Building is viewed from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday, August 9, 2024. (Aaron Schwartz/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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“I personally would refuse to serve anyone in my position that I know is sex trafficking or trying to deport millions of people,” she said.
“It's not: 'Oh, we hate Republicans.' “The problem is that this person has moral convictions that are in stark conflict with my moral convictions, and I do not feel comfortable serving her,” Van Roy added.
An anonymous hostess at a luxury restaurant said she planned to look up all the Trump administration figures online so she could find out who they were and give them a bad table if they came.
She continued: “I will only give them a bad table, but other than that I will guarantee them decent and polite service.” “I feel like them getting a bad table is nothing compared to the damage they will do.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 12: President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a reception at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after being named TIME's “Person of the Year” for the second time on December 12, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
However, not all of the liberal workers in the report were planning to protest the incoming administration as they went about their work.
A bartender named Joseph said that while he's disappointed with the election results, he's looking forward to higher tips with more Republicans in Washington.
“I think the average tip I get from Republicans — at least the ones that I or one of my coworkers have gotten to know — is closer to 30 percent. As for Democrats, I'm surprised if it's more than 20 percent,” he said, adding that Republicans They tend to be lower maintenance. Shepherds as well.
The comments evoke memories of Trump's first time in office, when GOP figures were harassed while dining at D.C.-area restaurants.
Then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is with her The family was evicted From a restaurant in Virginia, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was harassed and assaulted at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was fired from a Virginia restaurant in 2018, when she was working as Trump's press secretary. (Getty Images)
A few months later, Republican Senator Ted Cruz and his wife were also kicked out of a D.C. restaurant by left-wing protesters.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif Supporters encouraged After the two incidents, to respond to the Trump administration. She said at the time that current administration officials defending Trump “know what they're doing is wrong,” and said they would soon no longer be able to appear peacefully in public without being harassed. She later retracted those statements.
Fox News' Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
