Two employees at an Ann Arbor, Michigan Smoothie King "are no longer with the business" after a couple claimed they were refused service at the store because the husband was wearing clothes with President Donald Trump's name on it.
In a now viral X video with over hundreds of thousands of views as of March 3, the woman said she and her husband were refused service because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt that displayed Trump's name, leading to a response and staffing change by Smoothie King.
A video of the interaction between the couple and an employee at the Smoothie King initially appeared to be posted on TikTok and has since been deleted. However, clips have been shared in a post on X by accounts called Leftism, which says its goal is "Exposing Leftists," and Meme’nOnLibs, which says its mission is "to ridicule liberals enough to end the woke movement." "She refused to serve customers at @SmoothieKing because the husband wore a Trump hoodie," Leftism said in the Monday post. "She has now made a GoFundMe in which she boasts about refusing to serve Trump supporters, and claims that she was filmed without permission, is a minor, and now has a lot of hate comments."
The post also called for GoFundMe to "take proper action and not allow her to raise money off of discriminating against others." As reported by The Detroit News, part of the USA TODAY network, the GoFundMe page was later disabled. Before it was disabled, the GoFundMe account said the employee "refused service to trump supporters, who recorded me as a minor without permission, after they posted the video it got hundreds of hate comments and threats making the job no longer safe to return to."
