Being screamed at in restaurants: it’s not just for GOP pols and Trump administration types anymore.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson said on an Oct. 15 National Review podcast that he avoids the capitol city’s restaurants not because he feels threatened, but because “... having someone scream, 'Fuck you!' at a restaurant, it just wrecks your meal.”
Carlson also claimed that he only feels welcome in one DC eatery, and that he “... can’t wait for this revolution to end, so I can go back out to dinner.” Apparently expensive DC cuisine carries an even heftier price tag for political dissidents.
Sadly, In the era of Trump, Carlson’s revelation isn’t very surprising. Sen. Ted Cruz and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen have recently been on the receiving end of dining room disparagement in response to their support for one or more of the president’s actions. But Carlson has gone public with his criticisms of Trump and still gets the treatment he does.
In the same National Review interview he reiterated that his show Tucker Carlson Tonight is not designed to be “in cahoots with Trump’s messaging operation” (quote from Hollywood Reporter), and that he has always had qualms about the chief executive’s moral character: “His personal shortcomings have hamstrung his agenda, in my opinion...”
Carlson’s nuance ought to get him some respect, especially in a town that is critical of Trump. But why is this conversation even happening? Because the Left has irreversibly brought politics into everything, even where one chows down.
