Chef José Andrés on Washington, D.C.

Beloved celebrity chef José Andrés 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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Sources

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-crime-washington-dc-restautants-2119924 

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/chef-jose-andres-calls-trump-224228036.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAueRFPyz-lx75DG3E87YWXpPLg45CO7bQE0eioylom1xFNXDd5FVB3QC-ZZhJLV7loxHeUmpqujBJgU4nJSKcwUCQQoQdvwu7vbU5Ef7tkC1M-hN0AFURMCIL_LZTY3fR9xyn_HrXfN2xlg2QWEK0rQUNeaNHTd08Je7sKOvdrn 


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