Viral videos on social media portray the moment protesters began jeering US President Donald Trump at a Washington restaurant.<\/p>\n
The 79-year-old Republican approached the shouting protesters in the restaurant, pausing a few feet away from them for a few moments, nodding and smiling placidly without offering a response.<\/p>\n
Seconds later, Mr Trump gestured for the area to be cleared out, saying “come on, let’s go.”<\/p>\n
Secret Service agents then moved the protesters, who waved banners of the Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n
Protesters said: “Free DC! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!”<\/p>\n
Others in the restaurant can be heard booing or chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!”<\/p>\n
The Secret Service and DC Metropolitan Police did not immediately respond to AFP’s requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Eating dinner in public is a rare event for Mr Trump, but Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that he “and his team enjoyed crab, shrimp, salad, steak and dessert” for dinner at a restaurant blocks from the White House.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump was joined by US Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Leavitt and others.<\/p>\n
In one video, Mr Vance is seen shaking diners’ hands and telling them to enjoy their meal.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the meal, Mr Trump told press “the restaurants now are booming” in DC, crediting his crackdown on the capital with National Guard troops.<\/p>\n
Pool reporters said he was greeted with loud cheers from people across the street and a smattering of boos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viral videos on social media portray the moment protesters began jeering US President Donald Trump at a Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-11785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}