Protesters Storm Restaurant as Trump Tries To Dine: ‘Free D.C.!’

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President Donald Trump and some members of his cabinet went to Joe’s Seafood near the White House on Tuesday night, only to be interrupted by protesters.

Flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Trump exited the presidential limo outside the eatery and was greeted with boos and at least one “F*ck you” from onlookers.

But the heckling didn’t end there.

In a video posted on social media by Prem Thakker of Zeteo, protesters stormed the restaurant and chanted, “Free D.C., free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time!”

In the video, which was seemingly recorded by one of the activists, Trump is seen entering the restaurant and walking toward a table. At one point, the president stops to face the camera directly and appears more amused than annoyed. After a few seconds, he motions toward security and says, “Come on.”

“Let’s go,” a man tells the protesters. “Time to go, time to go.”

The protesters continued their chant as they were escorted out. Trump’s field trip to the restaurant comes amid the ongoing clampdown he ordered in the nation’s capital, complete with the National Guard and a surge of federal law enforcement agents.

One of them shouted, “He’s not welcome in D.C.!” Some of the restaurant’s patrons could be heard booing the protesters.

Trump’s jaunt to the restaurant seemed to be spurred on by a reporter who asked the president about not patronizing restaurants in the nation’s capital.

“Do you want me to prove you wrong?” Trump asked.

After the protest, Code Pink said it was behind the disruption.

“CODEPINK activists disrupted Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, and other cabinet members’ dinner,” Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin posted on social media. “They feast while Gaza starves. Trump is the Hitler of our time. Free DC. Free Palestine! Stop terrorizing communities all over the world!!”