Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he can’t wait for protesters to stop confronting Republicans and Trump administration officials at restaurants so he can dine out again.
“I can’t really go to a lot of restaurants anymore because I get yelled at,” he said on a National Review podcast released Monday. “I don’t feel threatened, but having someone scream, ‘Fuck you!’ at a restaurant, it just wrecks your meal.”
Carlson, who lives in Washington, said he’s still a regular at one unnamed restaurant “because I love it and nobody hassles me.
“I can’t wait for this revolution to end, so I can go back out to dinner,” he said.
A number of Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers have been confronted at restaurants in recent months.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife left a Washington restaurant last month after protesters swarmed the couple over the lawmaker’s support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In June, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Washington as backlash grew over Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Days later, a Virginia restaurant denied service to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders over her role in the Trump administration.
