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elleng

(140,565 posts)
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:47 PM Aug 26

Beloved celebrity chef Jos Andrs publicly embarrasses Donald Trump

by exposing his absurd lie that D.C. restaurants are being closed due to an imaginary crime wave.
He really didn’t pull any punches here…

'“Mr. President @realdonaldtrump I understand why you are confused,” Andres wrote on X.
“All your time in DC you haven’t eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel. I’ve lived here for 33 years, and it’s a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety,” he went on.

“But restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people...making people afraid to go out,” Andrés added.
Trump previously claimed that "half the restaurants" in the city are "closed" because "nobody could go, because they were afraid to go outside." He used the flagrant fabrication to support his deployment of the National Guard to the city.

"Now those restaurants are opening and new restaurants are opening up. It's like a boom town," Trump lied.
Trump's deployment of thousands of heavily armed National Guard troops to the nation's capital has terrorized the inhabitants of the city for the sole purpose of allowing the convicted felon to play-act as a "law and order president." In reality, the city's violent crime rates recently hit a 30 year low.

The domestic invasion also has the added benefit for Trump of distracting from his worsening Jeffrey Epstein scandal and his failed economic policies. He remains a reality television personality at heart, so his first instinct is always to distract and generate headlines rather than to actually solve problems.

Not surprisingly, the deployment is proving deeply unpopular with the American people. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll discovered that just 38% of Americans support the use of troops for law enforcement in D.C. with 46% voicing opposition. The remaining percentage were unsure or declined to answer.

Trump's laughable claim about violent crime also points towards a cornerstone of his worldview. He thinks that his supporters are so stupid, so helplessly gullible, that they'll take anything he says as Gospel truth. He can say that the streets are a war zone awash in blood and rather than look out the window and see the lie, MAGA voters will simply nod along in agreement.
Unfortunately for them, the rest of us live in the real world. We're not falling for it and we're going to vote Republicans out of office en masse the first chance that we get.'

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Beloved celebrity chef Jos Andrs publicly embarrasses Donald Trump (Original Post) elleng Aug 26 OP
Who would want to go sightseeing anyplace that is being patrolled Klarkashton Aug 26 #1
It's true IronLionZion Aug 26 #2
It's true erronis Aug 26 #3
Yeah that's one of the very few things that orange chunk of shit is right about. FoxNewsSucks Aug 26 #8
SORRY I've moved 60+ miles south of DC, elleng Aug 26 #4
Richmond doesn't have one 'good' restaurant? (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 26 #6
I'm sure it does, I am not in Richmond, but elleng Aug 26 #7
Ahh. Gotcha. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 26 #10
The DC press pfitz59 Aug 26 #5
The DC press is part of the "in" crowd. erronis Aug 26 #11
Bravo Chef Andres for this and all the good you do. yorkster Aug 26 #9

Klarkashton

(3,783 posts)
1. Who would want to go sightseeing anyplace that is being patrolled
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 06:53 PM
Aug 26

By some half assed bunch of weekend warriors with assault rifles? No fucking way.

More obvious blatant lies from Trump.

IronLionZion

(49,762 posts)
2. It's true
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 07:10 PM
Aug 26

Some of the restaurants that have immigrant workers and customers have closed because of his goons. There are fewer events in the district and fewer people going out to restaurants due to the occupation.

erronis

(21,146 posts)
3. It's true
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:18 PM
Aug 26

"He thinks that his supporters are so stupid, so helplessly gullible, that they'll take anything he says as Gospel truth."

FoxNewsSucks

(11,312 posts)
8. Yeah that's one of the very few things that orange chunk of shit is right about.
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 09:46 PM
Aug 26

They are that stupid.

elleng

(140,565 posts)
4. SORRY I've moved 60+ miles south of DC,
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 08:52 PM
Aug 26

no 'great' restaurants near me, but PLENTY in DC.

elleng

(140,565 posts)
7. I'm sure it does, I am not in Richmond, but
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 09:44 PM
Aug 26

Calvert County MD.

A couple good ones on Patuxent, River, near Cheasapeake Bay.

erronis

(21,146 posts)
11. The DC press is part of the "in" crowd.
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 09:56 PM
Aug 26

I've watched 50+ years of comings and goings of the major papers. There was usually a good liberal pub such as the WaPo, perhaps a middle of the road, the RW Washington Times but still had some general interest.

Now everybody is afraid to accidentally step on his stupid red tie.

yorkster

(3,371 posts)
9. Bravo Chef Andres for this and all the good you do.
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 09:52 PM
Aug 26

Thank you for your humanity and courage.

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