<p class="title rtejustify">President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the Virginia restaurant that refused to serve his press secretary Sarah Sanders, suggesting that the "dirty" eatery "badly needs a paint job" and must focus more on cleaning its "filthy canopies, doors and windows".</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia on Friday for working for Trump.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so," Sanders said in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Trump slammed the 26-seat farm-to-table restaurant today for refusing to serve a "fine person" like Sarah Sanders.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders," he said in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!" Trump, an admitted germophobe, added.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The restaurant's co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson told 'The Washington Post' that her reasons to kick Sanders out included the concerns of employees who were gay and knew she had defended Trump's desire to bar transgender people from the military.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Wilkinson said she believed Sanders works in an "inhumane and unethical" administration.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The incident had come days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Both cases come amid increasing pressure on the US government over its controversial policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the Mexican border.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">A decision by the administration to criminally prosecute every undocumented migrant crossing the border led to some 2,300 children being separated from their parents in May and June and sparked a global wave of outrage.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">President Trump has now halted family separations but says he remains committed to the "zero tolerance" policy.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Sanders' father, former Fox News host and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, had accused the restaurant of bigotry for asking his daughter to leave.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Bigotry. On the menu at Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington VA," he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Or you can ask for the 'Hate Plate'. And appetizers are 'small plates for small minds'," he said. </p>
<p class="title rtejustify">President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the Virginia restaurant that refused to serve his press secretary Sarah Sanders, suggesting that the "dirty" eatery "badly needs a paint job" and must focus more on cleaning its "filthy canopies, doors and windows".</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia on Friday for working for Trump.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so," Sanders said in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Trump slammed the 26-seat farm-to-table restaurant today for refusing to serve a "fine person" like Sarah Sanders.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders," he said in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!" Trump, an admitted germophobe, added.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The restaurant's co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson told 'The Washington Post' that her reasons to kick Sanders out included the concerns of employees who were gay and knew she had defended Trump's desire to bar transgender people from the military.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Wilkinson said she believed Sanders works in an "inhumane and unethical" administration.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The incident had come days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Both cases come amid increasing pressure on the US government over its controversial policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the Mexican border.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">A decision by the administration to criminally prosecute every undocumented migrant crossing the border led to some 2,300 children being separated from their parents in May and June and sparked a global wave of outrage.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">President Trump has now halted family separations but says he remains committed to the "zero tolerance" policy.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Sanders' father, former Fox News host and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, had accused the restaurant of bigotry for asking his daughter to leave.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Bigotry. On the menu at Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington VA," he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">"Or you can ask for the 'Hate Plate'. And appetizers are 'small plates for small minds'," he said. </p>