Writes Stephan Courseau, owner of Le Bilboquet, whence Don Jr. instagrammed:
Lots of cake politics lately. Why can't cakes just be about cake? Cake for cake's sake.
December 19, 2017
The "outside cake."
"Someone that attended the party brought in an outside cake for Donald Trump Jr.’s upcoming birthday and we are not sure who that was. Both Donald Trump Jr. and Ted Cruz took pictures with the cake and posted on social media outlets. We at Le Bilboquet feel betrayed and sad. Restaurant business is about creating a hospitable environment for all, a non-partisan, non-politicized, nondiscriminatory and respectful environment. The fact that guests decided to use our restaurant as a platform to promote, disrespect, and spread hatred goes against everything we stand for. On a personal note, I am French and my wife is Mexican. We both believe in universal values of love, respect and tolerance..... I am truly sorry that such distasteful events happened at our venue.... It reminds us that a divide still exists and that we have to keep promoting our core values...."
Writes Stephan Courseau, owner of Le Bilboquet, whence Don Jr. instagrammed:
Lots of cake politics lately. Why can't cakes just be about cake? Cake for cake's sake.
Writes Stephan Courseau, owner of Le Bilboquet, whence Don Jr. instagrammed:
Lots of cake politics lately. Why can't cakes just be about cake? Cake for cake's sake.
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I don't know why an Obama cake spreads hatred. Yes, the image is distorted, but it looks like something that was made to be pro-Obama. I'm guessing it was presented to Don Jr. as a joke gift because it IS pro-Obama, and then Don Jr. just posed with his best effort at a goofy I-can-take-a-joke smile.
Wow. How could you leave off the civility bullshit tag? That whole speech by the restaurateur is pure 100% Wagyu beef bullshit.
He’s making a racist face.
Ways to spread hate in 2017:
disliking President Obama
having Donald Trump for a father
being Ted Cruz
Why did that restaurant owner feel the need to virtue signal?
I can't see any identification from the photo.
The left is going apeshit over Mark Levin calling Trump "Reagan's Third Term."
They really are crazy.
It's a cake with a famous Obama picture on it. What is the problem? I don't get it.
Can everyone imagine if one of President Obama’s daughters did such a distasteful thing using President Bush’s image as a comedic prop? Ann would have been first in line to express outrage.
Cruel neutrality my ass.
We both believe in universal values of love, respect and tolerance...
Unless you're a Republican.
He's not only promoting hatred, and spreading hatred, he's disrespecting hatred.
Sad!
Cake hate.
Weinstein has naked actresses jump out of his cakes . He calls them casting cakes used for testing the actress skills such as texture and feel..
"What is the problem? I don't get it."
Easy. Suddenly it's known that Trump Jr was in this guy's restaurant. It's not just quietely taking Trump money anymore, it's like news reports about a turd in the soup. To take the stink off he had to make a grand civility bullshit speech so everyone knows the place was washed with carbolic and fumigated the moment that, that, that Trump thing left.
Fudge grudge.
When the choice is cake or death, you don't need to embrace the power of AND.
That restaranteur is an asshole. There’s no hate there. Hope he gets lotsa liberal business to make up for people like me who won’t go there because he’s an asshole to a paying customer for no good reason.
It was art.
Who said let them eat Obama cake...
Q. How many Now I Know!s can take a joke?
A. That's not funny!
Maybe some people look at a picture of Obama and sense racist feelings, but what if those feelings are coming from inside your house?
Evidently that's not a cake. It's a Consecrated Host. Sacrilege !
Can everyone imagine if one of President Obama’s daughters did such a distasteful thing using President Bush’s image as a comedic prop? Ann would have been first in line to express outrage.
Unlikely. But conservatives wouldn’t be squeezing “ooh its a hate crime” like this liberal weenie did. Do you not remember Obama blaming Bush for literally everything that went wrong?
Squeeling
The fact that guests decided to use our restaurant as a platform to promote, disrespect, and spread hatred goes against everything we stand for.
Yes. Cake is hate. But it's OK to legally compel bakers to make it for your wedding. But bringing in outside cake is hateful, particularly if you're last name is Trump and it's done as a stupid joke. The disrespect and hatred like spreads like frosting.
That looks like a big cookie, not a cake.
Now I Know!: "Can everyone imagine if one of President Obama’s daughters did such a distasteful thing using President Bush’s image as a comedic prop?"
Every republican is labeled as "literally Hitler", lefties make rape jokes about underage republican children and you are upset about a cake.
You delicate, delicate little maoist snowflake.
I realize the cake is mocking the famous Obama image but is it really Obama the cake "artist" is trying depict or is it Trump Jr? I can't tell.
What is this nonsense? That's a cookie, not a cake. Politics aside, I wouldn't want to eat at a restaurant where they don't know the difference between a cake and a cookie.
Translation: the left is vengeful and I don't want this to hurt my business.
Obama? I was certain the image on the cake was of Verizon shill Ajit Pai.
Wait, I thought cakes didn't qualify as speech, nor could the message on a cake count as an endorsement. How can a cake spread hate and a vile message, and yet a positive cake for a gay wedding doesn't say "I endorse this ceremony"?
I assume the answer is "Because shut up, bigot!", but I always hope for a surprise that never happens.
I suspect AA and some of you have missed a trick. He accused Trump Jr and Cruz of hatred and *only* them. He specified "guests". The outside cake was not from his "guests" (ie customers) but someone else who brought it in.
Would the restaurant owner feel compelled to apologize if a patron brought in a Trump cake as a jest? My guess is no.
Oh wait, I remember now:
It is free speech if leftists approve of the message, and such speech can be compelled if necessary.
It is hate speech if leftists don't approve of the message, and such speech can be restricted if necessary.
Did I miss anything?
Perhaps Don Jr has gone full LLR/lefty and now identifies as a baked good and wants to marry the cake/cookie?
I cannot see President Obama's likeness in this image. I've looked several times.
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I thought it was Mueller.
They're politically congruent. Tolerance, or something. It's not the ingredients. It's the recipe.
It resembles an image of Cruz perceived through a liberal lens. The very same lens that depicted Obama in a distorted cacophony of colors. It's a parody of a parody.
Can everyone imagine if one of President Obama’s daughters did such a distasteful thing using President Bush’s image as a comedic prop?
Her dad pissed all over Bush for eight years. A comedic prop from one of the kids would've been a welcome relief.
I know, I know, sometimes a cookie/cake is just a cookie/cake, just like a cigar is just like a cigar. Until, BJ Clinton got ahold of it.
Pie's better anyway.
It could be the Netflix, BitTorrent, et al guys and gals who want to capture the non-participating market through regulatory directives, while increasing corporate profits and subsidizing their customers' luxury choices.
That is a terrible likeness of the Obama picture. If you have to be told who it is...
Shorter scolding Store Owner: That's not funny.
Le Bilboquet is named for that stupid French game where you try to flip a ball on a string into a cup on the same stick. Ball-and-stick games create a hostile eating environment akin to rape. No wonder Weinstein went there.
Before I read the text, I thought it was supposed to be a picture of Jr. on the cake (cookie?).
I am sure far worse goes on there every day, directed at Trump. Anyway, it's a gag gift.
2 more confirmed cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome (assuming his wife agrees with him).
"Why did that restaurant owner feel the need to virtue signal?"
He had to head off any attempt to shame, boycott, or attack his restaurant. He also had to point out that he's a foreigner,and that his wife is a foreigner of color -- much better than being Americans. He may have saved himself a broken window or two.
True, the restaurant wasn't readily identifiable in the pic, but you can't be too careful these days.
Even so, Don Jr. set himself up for unflattering memes with that sick smile. Brace yourself
Inquiring minds wanna know: Is Shepard Fairey gonna sue, or what? Seriously, an interesting copyright law question.
Maybe some people look at a picture of Obama and sense racist feelings,
Some people look at the sky and sense racist feelings but that doesn't mean the rest of us should play along.
Incidentally, a bilboquet is a cup-and-ball toy, otherwise known as a balero.
"The fact that guests decided to use our restaurant as a platform to promote, disrespect, and spread hatred goes against everything we stand for"
Well, F you. I will not be patronizing your establishment.
If you didn't want the deplorables in there, why did you host the party? You knew who they were. You wanted their business.
So why disparage them on social media after the fact just because they have a cake with Obama's picture on it. I see nothing hateful about the cake, not even disrespectful really. It's not a caricature picture of Obama, or any kind of racist tilt.
So, again, F you!
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Leading from Behind.
It seems the owner is afraid of the reaction of his usual clientele, which is probably fashionably liberal.
Ted Cruz and Don Jr. could probably prank the whole city of San Francisco, by taking selfies in every fancy establishment in town. There will be ritual exorcisms and purification ceremonies for weeks.
That isn't a cake! It is a big cookie.
Doh.
If you go to Le Bilboquet's Instagram page to see if there are anti-Trump people there who did not receive the universal blessed sacrament of love, respect and tolerance, you will find their Instagram account has been taken down, making it impossible to do so.
Was the Instagram account wiped? Like with a cloth?
Ted and Don Jr. should probably do this in fact, make it a road show.
Show up by surprise, going about incognito, in disguise.
Make reservations under pseudonyms.
It will become very entertaining.
"Maybe some people look at a picture of Obama and sense racist feelings, but what if those feelings are coming from inside your house?"
Or far worse, from inside the cake?! That would be a terrible thing!! My God! A racist cake. Can you imagine?? If it was a chocolate cake that would be extra racist. And if it were a double layer cake it would be like double racist. And like "Let them eat cake" would be like, you know, some racist metaphor or something. Do they even let a cake like that into a fancy restaurant? Did it have to ride over on the back of the bus? What if it is a red velvet cake? It boggles the mind.
It does look like a big cookie, but I can't figure how that picture represents Obama. Looks more like me, and not much.
It reminds me a bit of "Blackadder" Season 3, 'Sense and Senility'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--HR7PWfp0
Don't mention 'Macbeth'
"That isn't a cake! It is a big cookie."
In that case it's probably not racist.
Why did that restaurant owner feel the need to virtue signal?
I can't see any identification from the photo.
It says the location at the top of the tweet, right under DT Jr's twitter handle.
I remember my first beer.
It is kind of funny how Ted Cruz always looks exactly like a cardboard cutout of Ted Cruz.
Edit on the beer comment -- stolen from Steve Martin in Concert circa 1981.
"We both believe in universal values of love, respect and tolerance"
I suspect the couple is very discriminating upon whom they bestow the values of "love, respect, and tolerance."
OK, Froggie, you moron, that is not a proper virtue signal.
1. It's not a cake it is a cookie;
2. It's not Obama is Don, Jr likeness
3. The restaurant owner is an idiot and I wouldn't trust him to know how to follow a recipe.
prank the whole city of San Francisco... There will be ritual exorcisms and purification ceremonies for weeks.
While the tolerance is an illusion, the divergence is progressive. Cookie?
Such a racist picture. It violates the third commandment of liberal politics:
"Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image of the Lord Obama, unless ye be welcome in the temple of the DNC."
Politics turns people into assholes, pit bull bites toddler, the New England Patriots get anther benefit from a stupid NFL rule... film at eleven.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a cake just a cake. Would that more people understood this.
-sw
Would it be legal for the baker to refuse to make one?
It looks like Two-Face took over the cookie factory.
Or maybe he fell into the cookie vat.
It looks like E. Nigma has pushed Two-Face into the cookie vat and he's about to split the cookie with an unsuspecting citizen of Gotham.
Blogger Now I Know! said...
Can everyone imagine if one of President Obama’s daughters did such a distasteful thing using President Bush’s image as a comedic prop? Ann would have been first in line to express outrage.
That would depend on context. Althouse has a sense of humor. You might try and aquire one.
Don Jr. What a putz.
Vicki from Pasadena
"That isn't a cake! It is a big cookie."
In that case it's probably not racist.
Oreo. Come on. Get with the program !
Don Jr. What a putz.
Vicki from Pasadena
Another example of what passes for intelligent comment on the left.
"It reminds us that a divide still exists "
That man needs some time for self-reflection.
I believe it was Obama who said
"If you like your cake, you can have your cake..and eat it too."
"We both believe in universal values of love, respect and tolerance" You mean, like, love for the enemy, respect for difference, tolerance for the majority? Or you're just spouting BS?
"It reminds us that a divide still exists and that we have to keep promoting our core values." True, the message reminds us that prog assholes are divided from the rest of us and keep promoting their core vales of hatred toward the deplorables.
Other than that, it was just CYA. Can't be too careful with fellow progs.
..as well as
"I do think at some point you've had enough cake. When you spread the cake around, it's good for everybody."
"Thou shalt not make any graven image of Obama" is an apparent 11th Commanment for loyal Dems. Fine. I don't want to see his mugly ugh on any coins or bills.
So, the cake... cookie, was made to the baker's specification. His objection is that it was eaten by an uninitiated consumer. Bow down before the one...
The Obama brand is the democratic brand of the future and must be protected and revered now that Hillary's has been thoroughly trashed. Obama will anoint Kamala Harris in the same way that Willie Brown did.
"Translation: the left is vengeful and I don't want this to hurt my business."
Precisely. The owner's response is so mannered it almost reads like parody.
The Obama brand is the democratic brand of the future and must be protected and revered now that Hillary's has been thoroughly trashed. Obama will anoint Kamala Harris in the same way that Willie Brown did.
12/19/17, 8:50 PM
Will she have to blow him too?
What a grim, constrained world the Left lives in. Most days I feel like a flower child by comparison.
"It reminds us that a divide still exists"
Wait..it shows Ted Cruz at a Trump birthday party..
Come together!
Dina Schwartz
1 review
3 months ago-
Horrible! The worst experience we've ever had.
FOOD NOTHING SPECIAL and RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRICED!
Owner of the restaurant is very rude and discriminates against different ethnic groups .
The owner harasses customers and yells obscenities.
Customers and personnel alike were in shock of owners behavior, that evening.
Be careful, if the owner is in need of the table to seat other guests , he rudely throws you out.!!!! Shows no respect to women. A person such as him, has no business in dealing with customers . Please take that in consideration. He obviously is in need of anger management therapy.
He believes, nothing he can do or say , can hurt his business!
We never experienced such humiliation.
Shame on him !
Possibly answering:
Michael K said...Why did that restaurant owner feel the need to virtue signal?
Ted looks like he would rather be with anyone else. And what's jrs mouth gard about? Just got off the hockey rink?
Steve,
I don't see that in Cruz' expression..but if he's uncomfortable, he's might be seeing a concerning interaction between the French owner and an unspecified ethnicity.
That Obama depiction looks like he hybridized with Abe Vigoda or something.
If DT JR has a mouthguard while out in NYC, wise move.
I suppose we should be relieved that the Shepard Fairey food art wasn't applied to a big ol' slice of watermelon.
Maybe I'm just projecting. Who wouldn't want to be in a photo op with the son of the person who accused your father of conspiring to assassinate president kennedy?
Good question, Steve.
But there are so many good, nay..better questions these days...
Oy. Its going to be a long 8 years in this country.
Maybe it proves how Obama is a "uniter".
Hope that helps..
Looks a little like Benjamin Netanyahu to me.
"Cake for cake's sake"
The zipless cake.
BL,
That would not go over well with Cake Nazi..
The Democrats need to find their sense of humor. Sure this is a poke at the former president, but it's not even to the level of a political cartoon (for example, any of Michael Ramirez's cartoons featuring Obama). The most appropriate dig back at Trump Jr by Obama fans with a sense of humor would have been "in mother Russia, Obama cake eats you."
It’s a restaurant in Dallas, Texas. Maybe he should put a sign on the door that says “No conservatives or Republicans”. That should be good for business.
"Obama will anoint Kamala Harris in the same way that Willie Brown did."
I'm not sure Obama is up to it, so to speak.
"Maybe some people look at a picture of Obama and sense racist feelings"
So, now any representation of a "person of color" is racist?
That apparently answers the question about whether baking a cake is art or not.
"...whether baking a cake is art or not."
It's a cookie, not a cake. Cakes are clearly art. Cookies are clearly political propaganda. It's a bright line.
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
"Well, F you. I will not be patronizing your establishment."
That's backwards.
We should be patronizing his establishment, if only to order something and then to complain that we see racist and hateful things in his cooking.
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