‘Want Me To Prove You Wrong?’ Trump Suggests He’ll Eat at D.C. Restaurant Just To Spite Reporter

President Donald Trump told a reporter he might go to a restaurant in Washington, D.C. just to prove the reporter wrong.

The president took questions from the press at the White House on Wednesday amid his ongoing deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital in what he claims is an attempt to combat crime in the city. At one point, a reporter asked Trump about not attending restaurants as president:

REPORTER: Is there a restaurant– Sir, you haven’t gone–

TRUMP: I might. Sure.

REPORTER: You haven’t gone to one in either of your terms that wasn’t–

TRUMP: How do you know? How do you know?

REPORTER: Because I, and many other reporters–

TRUMP: Do you want me to prove you wrong? Do you want me to prove you wrong?

REPORTER: Yes. Please–

TRUMP: But I will, uh, I think it’s something we could consider doing. Love to do it. I love the White House food, but after a while, I could see going to a nice restaurant. It’s safe.

After threatening to prove the reporter wrong for spite, the president then pivoted to potentially sending the National Guard to Baltimore.

“The people in Baltimore, the people in all of the places we talk about, they wanna see us there,” said. “And I think we’re pretty much waiting until we get asked, and probably. We’re doing them a big service.”

For security reasons, sitting presidents generally don’t dine out, though Trump has occasionally channeled his inner Bill Clinton and visited McDonald’s. On the campaign trail last year, then-candidate Trump donned an apron and served customers at a McDonald’s in Philadelphia.

Watch above via Fox News.

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