Restaurant Won't Be Adding Trump to Its Mural of Every President Since Eisenhower
“Our official position is that it is not in the budget.”
12.30.2016
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Now that Donald Trump is on his way to the White House, freedom of association has suddenly become the left's highest most precious right.
Example #694: Mama Ayesha’s restaurant in Washington D.C. has been serving Middle Eastern food in the Adams Morgan neighborhood since 1960. According to Mediaite, in 2009 artist Karla “Karlisima” Rodas finished a mural that took him two years to paint which depicts the restaurant’s founder, “Mama” Ayesha Abraham herself, with every U.S. President since Dwight Eisenhower. A quick location search on Instagram for the restaurant turns up more photos of the mural than of the food, Mediaite notes.
Amir Abu-El-Hawa, whose family owns the restaurant, recently told The Washingtonian about the mural, “This is Mama welcoming the presidents to DC… She was the American dream. For a Muslim and Arab woman immigrant from Palestine to come here on her own and build this business, is a remarkable legacy.”
Incoming President Donald Trump will not be added to the mural, however. When asked why, Abu-El-Hawa explained, “Our official position is that it is not in the budget.”
The fact that he called this "the official position" sends the obvious message that there is an unofficial one which he is unwilling to share. We suspect we know what that position is.
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