If You Hate Trump Then Why Eat In His Restaurant?

President-Elect Donald Trump has seen fit to give Vanity Fair the loser treatment after the magazine published a scathing review of the Trump Grill (a.k.a. Trump Grille).


Trump tweeted, "Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!"


Tina Nguyen pulled no punches calling the food "slop" and upon returning home "brushed my teeth twice and curled up in bed until the nausea passed."


Naturally, Trump is overreacting as he usually does responding to slap in the face with a machine gun. Sooner or later, Trump will slip. There will be a school shooting or a police shooting and Trump will be preoccupied with what some journalist or celebrity said or tweeted about him. All of which would demonstrate that he cares far more about what people say about him than the well being of the people over whom he will soon preside.


But let's be honest. Nguyen is neither of fan of Trump nor is she a food critic (unless you want to count her recent assessment of Mitt Romney's ill-fated dinner with Trump at Jean-Georges late last month). If Nguyen had eaten at a steakhouse that did not have Trump's name on it would she have been as harsh? After all she did write, "Perhaps it’s a sign that Trump is in over his head, and a shallow, mediocre man who runs a shallow, mediocre business empire (and restaurant) would sink and implode, crushing the expectations of millions of his hopeful supporters." Let me put it another way. Would Nguyen have written a far more glowing review had she eaten at, say, Bill & Hillary's Country Kitchen?


Now maybe the food at Trump Grille is as bad as Nguyen describes. But as someone who cannot stand Trump I have no interest in finding out. The last place I would want to dine is at the Trump Grille. During my frequent visits to my Dad in New York City, I've not once entertained the idea and certainly have no intention of doing so in the future.


It seems to me that Nguyen is trashing Trump for the sake of trashing Trump. Sure it's good copy and has received a lot of attention with Trump giving the story even more. But Trump is going to say and do plenty of stupid things over the next four to eight years for writers to chew on and spit out without having to go to the Trump Grille.