White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that she was forced to leave a Virginia restaurant by the owner due to her work for the Trump administration.

Sanders said that she was dining at the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., when the owner asked her to leave, which Sanders did.

[Related: Trump slams 'filthy' Red Hen restaurant after it kicked out Sarah Sanders]

“Her actions say far more about her than about me,” Sanders tweeted on Saturday. “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.”


A man named Jaike Foley-Schultz claimed to be Sanders' waiter at the Red Hen. He said in a Facebook post that Sanders was accompanied by seven members of her family at the restaurant.

The owner of the restaurant, Stephanie Wilkinson, told the Washington Post Saturday that she asked Sanders to leave after huddling with her staff. She made the decision to ask Sanders to leave because of the Trump administration was inhumane and unethical."

“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” Wilkinson told the Post. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”

Sanders' account comes after protesters heckled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen earlier this week at a Washington, D.C. Mexican restaurant. Nielsen has publicly defended the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that had led to family separations at the border.

White House adviser Stephen Miller, who touted the “zero tolerance” policy, was also heckled at a different Mexican restaurant.

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to end family separations after major public criticism.