An app released earlier this month aims to help supporters of President Trump feel more secure when they dine and shop.
“63red Safe” was developed as a review app for conservatives. It allows users to answer questions about the business to let others know if it is “safe” for them, according to the description of the app in the Google Play store.
The app asks reviewers four questions after visiting a business: “Does the business serve persons of every political belief? Will this business protect its customers if they are attacked for political reasons? Does this business allow legal concealed carry under this state’s laws? Does this business avoid politics in its ads and social media postings?”
The founder of the app, Scott Wallace, told the Washington Post that his vision for the app is to “simply get these politics out of restaurants and businesses.”
“The truth is, from a political standpoint — not talking religion or race or sexuality — conservatives are under physical attack,” he said.
Wallace indicated that his inspiration for the project derived from his hesitation to discuss his support for Trump in public. “That was very uncomfortable for me. I don’t want to be a nation where putting Che Guevara on a T-shirt … or wearing a MAGA hat … makes you a target,” he said.
The app was featured Monday on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” where it was dubbed “Yelp for conservatives.”
Development of the app followed instances of conservative figures running into trouble at businesses. Last year White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia. About that same time Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced out of a restaurant in Washington, D.C., by activists.
There have also been incidents in which patrons wearing hats bearing Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” have been threatened or confronted.
