Trump was named TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year
President-elect Donald Trump was named TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday morning. The co-hosts of ‘Fox & Friends’ reacted to the announcement and what they call the ‘Trump effect’ as a majority of Americans are hopeful for the new year.
Food workers inside Washington, DCpromised to deny services and cause other inconveniences to members of the new Trump administration when they dine out over the next four years.
Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the nation’s capital told the story the Washingtonian that opposition to Republican figures in the progressive city was inevitable and a matter of conscience.
“You expect the masses to just ignore the RFK food at Le Diplomate on Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not throw a drink in their face?” says Zac Hoffman, a D.C. restaurant veteran who is now a manager at the National Democratic. Club.
Bartenders and servers in the report vowed to shun certain officials or take other small acts of defiance against these figures to “take back their power.”
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Restaurant workers in Washington DC promised that Trump officials would not feel welcome to dine out for the next four years. (iStock)
“This person theoretically has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait twenty minutes for your entrance,” says Nancy, a sophisticated bartendersaid.
“There are a lot of opportunities for us as employees to feel like we’re taking back our power, while not necessarily ruining anyone’s life. Giving them subtle discomfort feels like a small victory to us,” she continued.
Nancy said she would refuse services to certain Trump officials. If her employer tried to force her, she claimed she would quit “on the spot.”
“There’s power in letting it be known that you’re not comfortable with a situation, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be this big dramatic show,” she said. “It’s just little bits of resistance that add up, and little bits of resistance that other people will see and hopefully feel empowered to stand on those beliefs as well.”
Suzannah Van Rooy, a waitress and manager at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, also vowed to refuse service to Trump officials she believed had moral views that conflicted with hers.
The Capitol Building is seen from the National Mall in Washington DC on Friday, August 9, 2024. (Aaron Schwartz/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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“Personally, I would refuse to serve someone in this position who I know is a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,” she said.
“It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It is that this person has moral beliefs that are strongly opposed to mine, and I do not feel comfortable serving them,” Van Rooy added.
An anonymous host at a fine dining restaurant said she planned to look up all the Trump administration figures online so she could know who they were and give them a bad table when they walked in.
“I only give them a bad table, but otherwise I guarantee decent and polite service,” she continued. “I feel like 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 every Liberal worker in the report planned to protest the new government on the job.
A bartender named Joseph said that while he was disappointed by the election results, he was looking forward to higher tips with more Republicans in Washington.
“I think my tip average among Republicans — at least the ones I or a colleague has identified — is close to 30 percent. For Democrats, I’m surprised if it’s above 20,” he said, adding that Republicans tend to require less maintenance. patrons too.
These comments bring back memories of Trump’s first rise to power, when Republican Party figures were heckled while dining at DC-area restaurants.
Then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family was kicked out from a restaurant in Virginia and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was harassed and harassed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC in 2018.
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of a Virginia restaurant in 2018 when she was Trump’s press secretary. (Getty Images)
A few months later, Republican Senator Ted Cruz and his wife were also chased from the DC restaurant by left-wing protesters.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, encouraged supporters after the two incidents to fight back against the Trump administration. She said at the time that current administration officials defending Trump “know what they are doing is wrong” and said they will soon be unable to appear peacefully in public without being harassed. She later backed away from those comments.
Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
