Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
Queen of the press room and mother of lies.
Ever since a Virginia chicken restaurant asked her
to leave this weekend, the big debate in America has been:
Do government officials have the right to be left alone
when they're off the clock?
If Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets asked to leave a restaurant,
or if Kirstjen Nielsen is heckled
while she's eating Mexican food,
if Stephen Miller is out on a date and somebody--
I'm messing with you, that'll never happen.
I mean, come on.
No, no, no, for real, though, for real, though.
The question is, is it right for people
to protest government officials if they see them in public?
And if you listen to a lot of cable news pundits,
they have the answer.
We need to stop all this and begin to behave
in a, in a civilized manner.
If we can't agree to disagree and let each other be,
and neither side wants to do that, it becomes a problem.
There are certain lines, I think,
that even in this breakdown of civility we've had in politics,
that people realize you shouldn't cross.
TV REPORTER: Are you allowed to just kick someone out
because you don't agree
with their policies or their beliefs?
Whatever happened to tolerance?
Tolerance got grabbed by the pussy.
Didn't you hear? You didn't hear?
-Yeah. -(cheers and applause)
That's what happened to tolerance.
(cheering and applause)
Trump called her an animal, locked her up,
and threw her kids in a cage.
That's what happened to tolerance.
Like, these people have more amnesia
than the characters in a Lifetime movie,
"What happened to tolerance?”
And, you know, we've also heard people say
that it's fine to protest government officials,
as long as you do it during business hours.
TV REPORTER: Protesters target other prominent Trump officials
and supporters during their personal time.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a restaurant with her family,
seven people there.
Are her kids watching this?
Are her kids seeing her mom being harassed
just because they don't agree with her political opinions?
It's funny how these people are saying administration officials
shouldn't be protested during their off hours,
as if the administration's policies
only work from 9:00 to 5:00.
Yeah. It's not like when the White House staff
goes home every night, all of a sudden,
everyone in America is like, "Woo-hoo!
"I have health care back until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.
"Yeah!
"I've only got... I've only got health care for the evening.
Does anyone know a good night dentist? Yeah?"
And, by the way, night dentist is the job
Stephen Miller looks like he should have, just by the way.
And, also, let's-let's not get it twisted.
That restaurant owner didn't ask Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave
because of her opinions, okay?
She's a senior official of the Trump administration,
not some rando with a blog.
This person was protesting the government.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders just happened to be a part
of the government who showed up in her restaurant, right?
It's like if I had a beef with the Teletubbies.
It may have started with Laa-Laa,
but if Tinky-Winky shows up,
some shit is going down.
It's going down!
(cheers and applause)
Basically, people in power would like to be insulated
from the effects of their actions.
But if you're in a position
where you can influence other people's lives,
you shouldn't be shocked when you hear from the people
whose lives you affect.
Like, even athletes get booed by their fans
when they're not doing a good job.
And sports has no actual effect on people's lives.
A missed shot has never shut down a community center.
Okay? Never happens.
I mean, except for that one Shaq free throw.
That destroyed everything, but other than that...
And the thing to notice here for me is calls for civility.
People are like, "You have to be more civil.
You got to be more civil."
It always tends to come from people
in a position of privilege, right?
Which I understand, to be honest.
You know, the person winning in Monopoly
is never the person flipping the board. Yeah.
If you own all the hotels you'd be like,
"Hey, hey. Let's not fight about whose turn it is.
Let's just enjoy the game, come on, guys.”
Whereas everyone else is like,
"I've been in jail for seven hours.
"If this game goes any longer,
I'll miss my appointment with my night dentist.”
Oh, by the way, night dentist is now a hit show on CBS.
Night Dentist: when the sun goes down, the cavities come out.
And, you know...
(cheering and applause)
You know what gets me, you know what really gets me,
is in this whole argument when people say,
"But, Trevor, why can't we be polite?
"Why not fight hate with love,
just like Gandhi and Nelson Mandela?”
Don't ever forget, in their time,
people were not exactly happy with how they protested.
All right? The British called Gandhi an agitator.
Governments around the world
called Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
And every day we see people on the news
and social media saying, "Why can't these protesters
"be more like Martin Luther King?
"He was civil.
That's why he named it the 'civil rights.'"
But what you forget is back when Martin was marching,
people were complaining about him
the same way these people are complaining
about protesters right now.
Wow, racists back then were so eloquent.
"A coterie, a coterie."
And I like that he says
Martin Luther King created racial tension
where none existed,
like Dr. King went into the south
and was like, "Y'all are black."
"What?!"
(laughter)
(cheering and applause)
And I know...
I know that those leaders may have been racist,
but even some people who said they agreed
with what Dr. King stood for
still didn't approve of how he did it.
In fact, at one point,
he had an 63% disapproval rating in the U.S.
So, look, all I'm saying is, what happened
to Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn't nice,
but as a government official,
people protesting your policies is part of the job.
And the good news is, Sarah,
there's a ton of other chicken places
you can go and eat. Yeah.
And if you're struggling to find one,
just ask your boss.