A woman was fired from her job with a government contractor after a photo of her flipping off President Trump’s motorcade went viral.
Juli Briskman, a Democrat, was riding her bicycle when Trump’s motorcade rolled past her on its way back to the White House from Trump’s Virginia golf club.
“He was passing by and my blood just started to boil,” she told the Huffington Post. “I’m thinking, DACA recipients are getting kicked out. He pulled ads for open enrollment in Obamacare. Only one-third of Puerto Rico has power. I’m thinking, he’s at the damn golf course again.”
She added: “I flipped off the motorcade a number of times.”
She said she decided to give her employer, Akima LLC, a heads up about the image after it went viral. A day later she was fired.
Briskman said her bosses told her she had violated the company’s social media policy by making the image her profile picture on Facebook and Twitter.
“They said, ‘We’re separating from you,’” Briskman said. “Basically, you cannot have ‘lewd’ or ‘obscene’ things in your social media. So they were calling flipping him off ‘obscene.’”
Briskman countered that she had not been on the job while flipping off Trump, nor do her Facebook and Twitter pages mention her employer.
Akima told her the image could hurt their business, Briskman said.
