DC bar employee fired after claiming she wouldn’t serve Trump administration

Published December 15, 2024 4:29pm ET



A bar in Washington D.C. has fired one of its employees after she claimed she would not serve members of the incoming Trump administration, which the bar cited as a violation of its “zero-tolerance policy on discrimination.”

Suzannah Van Rooy, a former part-time server at Beuchert’s Saloon, recently informed the Washingtonian that she would not serve anyone in office “trying to deport millions of people,” claiming that she would not feel “comfortable” serving them. Following these comments, as well as “wildly offensive responses” she made through the bar’s social media account, the restaurant fired her over her “unforgivable behavior.”

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