A dinner outing with President Donald Trump and a couple cabinet members was met with boos by protesters in Washington, D.C.
Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrived at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab where protesters laid in wait, per Mediaite.
The quartet was heckled with boos and at least one “F*** you” from protesters.
There were other chants, including, “Free D.C., free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time!” which was captured on video and posted on X.
In the video, Trump enters the restaurant and walks toward a table. Trump faces the camera with a look of amusement rather than annoyance.
He then turns toward security and says, “Come on.”
“Let’s go,” a man tells the protesters. “Time to go, time to go.”
The protesters are escorted out of the restaurant as they continue to chant.
Another video post was accompanied with the narrative, “CODEPINK activists disrupted Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, and other cabinet members’ dinner.”
It was posted by Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin X.
“They feast while Gaza starves. Trump is the Hitler of our time. Free DC. Free Palestine! Stop terrorizing communities all over the world!!”
More than 2,200 National Guard soldiers were deployed in August, in addition to a wave of federal law enforcement, per CNN.
The president has been talking up the effects of his crackdown in the nation’s capital, Newsweek reported.
Trump declared a public-safety emergency because of crime. He federalized the city police force along with deploying of National Guard troops.
Trump used Tuesday night to highlight his campaign to rid the district’s streets of crime.
Earlier this year, Trump deployed National Guard troops to California in response to anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests and riots, according to Fox News.
He has also talked about going into other cities, such as Chicago, to help fight crime.
