Senior adviser to the president Stephen Miller told White House colleagues that he threw out $80 in takeout sushi after a bartender from the restaurant he ordered from flipped him off.
The bartender reportedly followed Miller out of the restaurant after he picked up his sushi order, yelled out his name, and raised both middle fingers and cursed after Miller turned around, according to the Washington Post.
A few months before that incident, people yelled, “Better be better,” at the Trump adviser as he walked through Dupont Circle in Washington D.C.
In another incident, Miller’s face was printed on “Wanted” posters placed on lampposts in the area near his City Center apartment.
Other members of the Trump administration have experienced public backlash, stemming from Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy that became the center of the media’s attention last month. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., egged on the public confrontations in June by telling people to make Trump administration officials feel unwelcome in public.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia where she was dining, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was run out of a Mexican restaurant by protesters and had people protesting outside of her residence. Later, then-Environmental and Protections Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was confronted in a restaurant on camera where a woman told him to resign.
