A group of protesters yelled at Donald Trump while he was at a fancy seafood restaurant near the White House. Many well-known members of t...
A group of protesters yelled at Donald Trump while he was at a fancy seafood restaurant near the White House. Many well-known members of the MAGA party were furious at the Secret Service for a major security breach.
On Tuesday, Trump went to Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth to show that the capital is safer now that he has sent National Guard officers to D.C. Code Pink activists quickly cut short the visit. They yelled, "Free D.C.! Free Palestine!" and "Trump is the Hitler of our time!" while the president stared at them from a few feet away. Since then, Trump supporters have asked the Secret Service why they let protesters get so close to Trump and why they seemed to take so long to respond to the disturbance.
Wednesday is the last day that the president can control local cops. At midnight, the 30-day emergency order will end. National Guard troops from eight Republican states are still expected to stay in the city, though, as there are no signs that Trump will let go of the city and send the guards home. Anna Paulina Luna, a congressman from Florida who supports Trump, even asked if the Secret Service had told Code Pink where the president would be eating on Tuesday night.
"How can they be so close to him?" Where was Secret Service, and did someone in Secret Service tell anyone else where he was? Moon wrote on X, "This needs to be looked into." Graham Allen, a pro-Trump podcaster, added, "How did Code Pink get so close to our president?" How did Code Pink know he was going to show up? It wasn't open to the public. Why did they have so much time to yell and scream at the president?!
Laura Loomer, a far-right activist who has become known as the "Grim Reaper" of the #MAGA movement for her attacks on officials, said the event was so dangerous that House Speaker Mike Johnson, who comes after Vance in the presidential succession, could have become president.
"The Secret Service needs to fire someone for this." Is there someone in the U.S. Secret Service who supports Hamas? People who are crazy about Hamas came in while Trump was at the restaurant. "We need to find out and show them up," Loomer wrote. Trump had never had dinner somewhere other than his own hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., since becoming president. Olivia DiNucci, the D.C. leader for Code Pink, told the Daily Beast that the group only booked a table "pretty last minute" at the fancy restaurant, where king crab claws cost almost $160, so they could talk to Trump. DiNucci said, "We thought it would just be Trump; we didn't know it would be all of his Cabinet. We also didn't think they'd be in such an open room; we thought he'd be somewhere else, and we were put right next to them." Many people blamed the Secret Service for the security holes that let a shooter get on a roof and shoot at Trump at a campaign gathering in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. The 78-year-old candidate was hit in the ear, but the injury was not serious.
The Daily Beast has asked the White House and the Secret Service for their thoughts.