Bouncers at the bar Zeitgeist in the Mission District threw out two Donald Trump supporters and followed them into the street, yelling at them to “Just go” and chasing them down the sidewalk, according to a video narrated by the Trumpistas.
The manager of the bar, however, said the men were ejected for making rude remarks to a bartender.
“The gentleman who filmed the video came in and made a derogatory comment to one of our female bartenders,” said Zeitgeist manager Gideon Bush, adding that the incident occurred on August 5. “It had nothing to do with them bring Trump supporters.”
Bush declined to go into the specifics of the comments.
The video was uploaded to YouTube on Monday and shows the two men sitting inside the bar at 199 Valencia St. before two bouncers ask them to leave.
“What did we do? What did we do exactly?” one of the men asks, as the bouncer says “Time to go,” and “The bartender said to get you out of here.”
The pair then move backwards out of the bar, filming the entire encounter, as the bouncers follow them out, seemingly putting their hands on the Trump supporter’s phone and blocking his shot.
“What are you pushing me around for?” the Trump supporter says. “Don’t fucking touch me.”
Bush, the bar manager, said today that a bouncer did not throw a punch, as alleged in the commentary, and that he only pushed the camera away.
The pair say that one of them was wearing a “Make America Great Again” shirt while sitting at the bar and were asked to leave after the bartender noticed the shirt, according to commentary accompanying the YouTube video.
The men tried speaking to the bartender, but she said that they were “bigots” and had to leave, according to the commentary.
After being ejected, the pair continue exchanging words with one of the bouncers while running from him onto the street and down the sidewalk. The pair then say the have a right to be on the sidewalk and walk back towards Zeitgeist, exchanging words with a different bouncer.
The bouncer, in turn, says that he too supports Trump.
“This is the shit we have to deal with as Trump supporters,” the bouncer says. “It sucks, but you know what, you gotta be the bigger person sometimes.”
“The bigger person is the one who doesn’t bow to injustice,” replies one of the men who was ejected. “The bartender is literally a bigot.”
After the video ends, Bush said that the Trump supporters called the police. When the police arrived and viewed the video, they too asked the Trump supporters to leave, he said.
I think Trump is an idiot, a bigot and a moron. I genuinely think that people who would pick him are truly ignorant people and not very intelligent.
Having said that… The people who work at Zeitgiest think that they are way cooler than they are and there is a culture of extreme rudeness that has become their shtick. The rider they are, the more the “unworthy” tip them, trying to buy their friendliness. Half of them don’t even realize they are doing it, they just integrate into the culture.
I don’t go there because I refuse to give my money to jerks. There’s basically two kinds of people who go:
1. People who know the staff (who get treated well) and
2. The moron wannabes who are desperate to be in a place they think is cool and don’t have the self respect to walk away.
So Zeitgeist says these Trump supporters said something rude but refuses to elaborate? Because they didn’t say anything rude. They were just obnoxious people looking to get into a debate.
What should have happened is exactly what the media should have done with Trump and that is not given him any attention and pretended he didn’t exist. They gave a bunch of air time to an idiot and look at what they created! A dumbed down candidate with no depth.
Actually…. Zeitgiest and the Trump Supporters deserve each other. I would urge 100 Trump supporters to go there every day in Trump shirts and you’ll ruin the “look how hard I’m trying to be cool” atmosphere.
We did not get kicked our for “lewd comments”. We were told to leave as soon as my buddy said that he was, in fact “serious” about his shirt.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. The staff at Zeitgeist all have chips on their shoulders and treat patrons poorly if they don’t have a certain “look”! White collar shirt? Forget about getting any service! I can take my hard earned money elsewhere!
Good for Zeitgeist! I’ve seen people kicked out for lesser offenses than being insulting to a bartender and then taking video inside, which the bar expressly prohibits. And why are Trump and his supporters so whiny?
Oh, great another story at Mission Local that has been reported a few other places on the web. Yet, this site continues to ignore the many improvements at BART’s 16th Street Plaza. For unknown reasons, Joe and Laura and Laura and others who write for Mission Local have shown zero interest in how the BART plaza is being sanitized and public health issues addressed. Heck, there’s been more coverage here of the McCoppin Hub, an area nowhere nearly as heavily used at the 16th and Mission hub, than BART’s plaza and station. What’s up with why there’s no coverage of the plaza?
Calling somebody any name ( or insulting somebody) is never a legal justification for violence. It can be legal justification for asking somebody to leave, however, and enforcing that request if necessary. However chasing these men down the street and threatening them with violence, either expressly or implicitly, is not legally justified.
What threat of violence? I didn’t hear anything like that on the videotape. Bars can refuse service to anyone, and I’ve seen people kicked out of Zeitgeist for lesser offenses than insulting a bartender.