Chef Jose Andres with World Central Kitchen visits a temporary shelter for the victims of the Southern California wildfires at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Celebrity chef and local D.C. icon Jose Andres is pushing back against Trump’s claim that his federal takeover and law enforcement surge in the nation’s capital has resulted in a “boom town” for the city’s restaurants.
Trump on Monday rejected reports that the flood of federal agents and National Guard troops had hurt D.C. restaurant and nightlife industry.
“Half the restaurants closed, because nobody could go, because they were afraid to go outside,” Trump said. “Now those restaurants are opening and new restaurants are opening up. It’s like a boomtown.”
Andres, in a Tuesday post on X, directly and sarcastically addressed Trump, saying: “I understand why you are confused…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…but restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people…making people afraid to go out.”
The Spanish-American restaurateur and founder of the global food charity World Central Kitchen and Trump have exchanged public hostilities in the past.
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The final coup de gras would be for him to hurl bread sticks at the Great One and ban him from his restaurant…Trump now lives in his own little enclosed Ivory Tower where he only sees what he thinks he sees and anyone else is wrong wrong wrong. the truest mark of dementia. “Im always right because you’re always wrong.”
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Very true Judy. He is in a bubble managed by Stephen Miller. He gets constant flattery from everyone worldwide who have learned the way to manipulate him is to praise him. But the bad part of that is he now believes all that ass kissing and telling him how great he is. They keep telling him he saved the country and he knows more than anyone. It causes him to say and do stupid stuff. What ever Stephen Miller wants him to do. Hugs
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