Unlike Obama, Trump visited just one DC restaurant in 4 years, that too his personal

New Delhi: Donald Trump who leaves his presidency has by no means in his four-year time period in workplace tried to be a part of the area people. A living proof is that in contrast to his predecessors, Trump has visited just one restaurant – the one in his personal Pennsylvania Avenue resort.
While former President Barack Obama was recognized for hitting all the fashionable hotspots for date nights, Trump, who is thought for his love of quick meals, has by no means stepped right into a DC fast-food joint. He, nevertheless, had as soon as despatched a former bodyguard to make McDonald’s runs and even catered White House occasions with Burger King and Domino’s.
According to a report in Washingtonian, Trump is a creature of behavior as when he does enterprise out for a meal on the Trump resort’s steakhouse, BLT Prime, he just about all the time orders the identical factor: shrimp cocktail, fries and well-done steak.

He did this as a result of right here he is aware of he’ll get precisely the meals he desires in the way in which that he desires, together with followers cheering him on.
In 2016, he had advised attorneys that “there aren’t that many” nice eating places in Washington as a part of a deposition in a lawsuit with movie star chef Geoffrey Zakarian. In 2017 he stated in an interview on the Larry O’Connor Show, “In Washington, you do have some great restaurants, and I’m going to start going to them,” Washingtonian stated.
He stated that he would begin visiting different eating places too.

 
“I was accused the other day. Well, when I leave the White House, which is seldom, I always go to my hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, and they say, ‘He should go to other places.’ And I never thought of it. And I’m going to start doing that. I’m going to go around.”
In 2019, Trump stated that he together with First Lady Melania Trump would cease by on the Michelin-starred Inn at Little Washington whereas awarding the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to Chief Patrick O’Connell. However, he’s but to step into the restaurant.

The journal Washingtonian opined that “there aren’t a lot of places around DC where he would have been welcomed”.
“If he wasn’t outright asked to leave–like former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was at Virginia’s Red Hen–he’d likely have been met with booing and cursing from other diners. And any restaurant that hosted him–no matter its bipartisan stance–would have no doubt faced backlash by mere association,” the journal opined.