DC bar server fired after promising poor treatment for Trump officials

The so-called “resistance” to Donald Trump's first term in office took the form of pink hats and mass marches, but this time around, it may manifest in capital city eateries.

Food service workers in Washington, D.C. have recently signaled their unwillingness to provide gracious hospitality to members of the incoming administration, a stance that has already resulting in one server's unceremonious firing, as Fox News reports.

New “resistance” emerges

This week, the Washingtonian magazine spoke to a group of industry stalwarts, servers, and bartenders in D.C. about their stated plans to give those tied to the new administration the cold shoulder should they attempt to patronize their establishments.

Their conduct, according to the progressive-minded workers, was a small way to take their “power back.”

Nancy, who works as a bartender in an upscale hotspot, said of a generic Trump team member, “This person theoretically has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entree.”

“There's a lot of opportunities for us as workers to feel like we're taking our power back, while not necessarily ruining someone's life Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like a little bit of a win for us,” she added.

Zac Hoffman, a veteran of multiple D.C. restaurants who now works for the National Democratic Club, stated plainly, “You expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not to throw a drink in his face?”

Server fired over stance

One such dissenter has reportedly learned the hard way that words and actions sometimes have consequences of the harshest sort, as Suzannah Van Rooy of Beuchert's Saloon was dismissed from her duties as a result of her proclamations of resistance.

Van Rooy told the Washingtonian, “I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people.”

She went on, “It's not, 'Oh, we hate Republicans.' It's that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don't feel comfortable serving them.”

As evidenced by the LinkedIn page previously maintained by Van Rooy -- a former Beto O'Rourke campaign organizer -- she was summarily fired from her server position, with Beuchert's Saloon stating that her commentary was “reprehensible” and a violation of its “zero-tolerance policy on discrimination.”

Hopefully other area establishments in the nation's capital will follow in Beuchert's footsteps and put a swift stop to the unprofessional -- and ultimately counterproductive -- “resistance” plan these servers suggest is afoot.