One of Trump’s top Cabinet members was seen mocking liberal protestors as they jeered in his face near a popular Republican hangout.
Groups of anti-Trump protestors have regularly flocked to the conservative hotspot Butterworth’s just blocks from the US Capitol for months.
The restaurant, which only opened last year, is frequently visited by Republican bigwig congressmen and Trump administration officials.
The protestors typically carry megaphones to loudly blast their anti-GOP chants from the sidewalk outside in an attempt to disturb patrons at the booming restaurant.
Some particularly musical activists have brought drums, bells and other instruments to serenade the largely conservative crowd with awful, jarring melodies.
‘No peace for fascists,’ read one sign recently held by a protestor outside the french bistro.
But on Thursday evening, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flipped the script on the curb-dwelling, raging hecklers.
Bessent, intrigued by the peculiar antics, stopped directly in front of the crazed and screaming cohort of protestors to laugh and film them as they bravely howled ‘Donald Trump eat s***.’
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrived to the popular Republican hangout Butterworth’s on Thursday evening as protestors screamed anti-Trump slogans outside
Not deterred by the enraged activists, Bessent mocked them by stopping and taking a video before heading inside
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a television interview outside the West Wing
Standing tall at around 6’4, the treasury secretary and his security personnel appeared undisturbed despite the raspy screams of the three protestors, who after much yelling, sounded like they were losing their voices.
Bessent has developed a reputation for volatile confrontations and threats of physical violence, most notably during a high-profile incident at an exclusive Washington, DC dinner for MAGA allies.
Witnesses said that Bessent erupted at fellow official Bill Pulte, accusing him of bad-mouthing him to President Trump, and threatened to punch Pulte in the face and ‘beat his ass’ if they took the argument outside.
‘Secretary Bessent not phased by tonight’s Butterworth protestors,’ one of the chefs and partners, Bart Hutchins, wrote on X alongside the chaotic video.
The rabble rousers had a speaker with a microphone and strobe lights on Thursday evening when the encountered the Cabinet member.
Once the individual on the mic spotted the treasury secretary, he immediately flipped the Cabinet member the middle finger.
Well, the screaming protester had been flipping the bird to everyone who entered the restaurant, so perhaps the treatment was not unusual.
‘Even the treasury secretary pauses to mock the protestors,’ Raheem Kassam, another Butterworth’s investor, reacted.
Kassam has suspected that the protestors who dutifully show up to the eatery night after night are paid to do so.
Though the clientele do not seem put off by the repeated antics – many have stopped to film the protests themselves and they see it as a sort of badge of honor – the protestors have still regularly tried to ruin the Republican hangout.
Butterworth’s has hosted some of the top names in Republican politics, including Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, FBI Director Kash Patel, Elon Musk and a slew of other politicos.
