WH press chief Sanders says was kicked out of restaurant for serving Trump

"Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left," Sanders said in a tweet message on Saturday using her official press secretary Twitter account.

"Her actions say far more about her than about me," she added in an unusually specific attack on a private business using an official government account, referring to the owner of the restaurant in the city of Lexington, 180 miles southwest of Washington, DC and home to the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University.

According to local press reports, the details of the incident could not be independently confirmed as owners of the restaurant did not immediately respond to inquiries from journalists.

However, an individual describing himself as a waiter at the Red Hen restaurant stated on his Facebook page Friday night that he had just served Sanders before she was asked to leave.

"I just served Sarah huckabee sanders [sic] for a total of 2 minutes before my owner asked her to leave and she complied," said the Facebook post by Jaike Foley-Schultz as quoted in various US news outlets. "Her family left on their own accord, we didn't actually refuse service or 'kick her out.'"

This is while Sanders did not mention family members in her description of the incident, though the post appears to match the tweet by the senior White House official.

According to local press reports, Sanders is not the first member of the Trump administration experiencing harassment by the public for serving the hawkish US president.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's dinner was also interrupted Tuesday night at a Mexican restaurant in the US capital by protesters from the Democratic Socialists of America, who shouted at her "shame" and "If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace."

Other protesters also shouted and chanted slogans outside Nielsen’s home in Virginia on Friday morning, news reports further stated, pointing out that in both instances, Nielsen was censured for backing Trump administration's controversial ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy that has led to the separations of immigrant families seeking illegal entry into the US from the impoverished and violence-torn Central American countries.

Moreover, another senior White House adviser, Stephen Miller, who is widely regarded as the architect of Trump administration’s recent immigration policy, was also insulted and called a “fascist” last Sunday at a Washington-area Mexican restaurant, according to a New York Post report.

Meanwhile, Sanders’ father, right-wing commentator, former Christian minister and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, also took to the Twitter on Saturday to defend her daughter, asserting: "bigotry is on the menu" at the restaurant.