Overview
- During an unannounced Sept. 9, 2025 dinner at Joe’s Seafood in Washington, Code Pink activists approached President Trump’s table and were removed after chanting slogans.
- White House aides say their theory focused on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s recommendation of the restaurant, her day-of calls to staff and her ties to Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, but they provided no proof.
- Greene called the allegation a “dangerous lie,” said she did not know Trump’s schedule, and criticized security protocols for not sweeping the venue or using metal detectors.
- Code Pink rejected the claim that Greene alerted them, with a spokesperson calling the notion “comical.”
- Trump aides met with Secret Service leaders after the incident and consider it a turning point in his rift with Greene, who resigned from Congress on January 5.