Celebrity Chef Jose Andres, who has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, claimed Saturday on Twitter that he was booted from a D.C. hotspot because Ivanka Trump didn’t want to see him. But after Trump reached out indicating she had nothing to do with the restaurant’s decision to bar Andres entry, Andres was forced to backpedal from his accusation and apologize.
Andres was, apparently, trying to get into an an annual invite-only after-party for the tony Alfalfa Dinner at Cafe Milano when he was turned away by security. Aggravated, Andres assumed he was barred because the First Daughter was a guest of the club and she didn’t want to be confronted with her father’s detractors. After taking a selfie with the doorman, Andres posted an angry missive on social media.
Thank you @CafeMilanoDC Franco Nuschese! I was a guest of the #alfalfaclubdinner2018 “everyone”welcome to the after party, but I’m the only individual not allow in? Is because @IvankaTrump told you so? You should be ashamed of yourself Franco.@washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/iJ5wQM18Z6
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) January 28, 2018
Cafe Milano quickly responded, assuring the chef that Ivanka Trump did not handpick the after-party guests and that Andres simply wasn’t on the list to get in. – READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [divider][/divider]White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday shot down a magazine’s story from the previous day that President Donald Trump called chief of staff John Kelly a “nut job” and that Trump’s daughter Ivanka is heading up a search to replace him.
“Look, I would not use Vanity Fair for much other than a coaster. I don’t think that it is a reliable source of information and certainly not on this topic,” Sanders said on Fox & Friends. “As chief of staff Kelly has said himself, as the president has stated, they both plan on being here for the long haul and doing it together.”
.@PressSec shoots down report that WH Chief of Staff Kelly is on his way out pic.twitter.com/fMvtnYaxyt
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) January 23, 2018
Citing “two prominent Republicans in frequent contact with the White House,” Vanity Fair reported on Monday that Kelly’s ouster didn’t look imminent because of a desire for him to outlast his predecessor, Reince Priebus, who spent six months in the job. But it said Trump had said of Kelly, “I’ve got another nut job here who thinks he’s running things.”
The magazine also said that “Ivanka is the most worried about it. She’s trying to figure who replaces Kelly,” according to a person who’s apparently spoken with her. – READ MORE
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