President Trump slammed The Red Hen, a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, in a tweet following the controversy after Sarah Sanders was asked to leave by the restaurant’s owner.
The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!
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