The Codfather: Trump Serves Up Cold Stare While Code Pink Flounders At D.C. Seafood Spot

President Donald Trump, in a moment that captured the new tone of law and order in the nation’s capital, stared down radical Code Pink protesters Tuesday night as he walked into a crowded D.C. seafood restaurant to cheers and applause.

Flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Trump was calm and composed as leftist agitators screamed “Free D.C., Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!” — a chant that echoed from a group aligned with known Chinese Communist Party sympathizers.

Trump paused. He stared at them, unflinching. Then, after taking his seat, he calmly requested that the protesters be removed so the evening’s diners could enjoy their meals undisturbed. “We have a safe city now,” Trump had told the crowd on arrival. “We did it in twelve days … you won’t be mugged going home. Have a good time, everybody. Don’t drink too much.”

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 10, 2025

In a video obtained by CNN, you can see the president is approached by protestors chanting “Free DC” and “Free Palestine” as he makes his way to his table pic.twitter.com/593jx6qMc7

— Samantha Waldenberg (@Sam_Waldenberg) September 10, 2025

Trump’s words weren’t bluster. They were backed by results.

In just the first week of Trump’s law enforcement surge — announced in mid-August as a direct federal intervention under the Home Rule Act—carjackings dropped 83%, robberies 46%, and car thefts 21%. For the first time in months, Washington, D.C., went a whole week without a single murder — almost unheard of in a city where violence had become routine.

Trump’s executive order declared a “Crime Emergency,” placing the city’s police department under the authority of Attorney General Pam Bondi. Hundreds of federal agents and more than 800 National Guardsmen were deployed in what the administration called “massive enforcement operations” against gangs, drug traffickers, and violent offenders.

At roughly the same time, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) launched a congressional investigation into Code Pink and The People’s Forum, both of which have financial and ideological ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Grassley warned that these groups may be acting as unregistered foreign agents in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). According to Grassley’s letter to the DOJ — obtained first by The Daily Wire — both organizations appear to be “funded and influenced by Mr. [Neville Roy] Singham and the communist Chinese government,” promoting CCP interests and potentially undermining U.S. policy.

Code Pink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham, has been tied to pro-CCP propaganda campaigns and even defended China’s detention of Uyghur Muslims. Unsurprisingly, it was Code Pink who showed up to harass Trump Tuesday night after the president’s federal crackdown began turning D.C. from a war zone into a functioning city again.

From cleaning up the streets to exposing foreign-backed radicalism, Trump isn’t just dining out in D.C. — he’s reclaiming it.

And based on Tuesday night’s staredown, he isn’t blinking.