Happy Days actor and avowed Trump supporter Scott Baio thought he'd give his local Starbucks a chance to demonstrate its liberal bias this weekend by doing that hysterical thing where you give the wrong name for your coffee. He laid his clever trap by pretending his wife's coffee belonged to the candidate, then watched as the barista "refused" to call out the Donald's name:
Got wife a coffee(I've never had a cup)The barista refused to call out name. @realDonaldTrump #MustBeABernieVoter pic.twitter.com/n1nQaP9lNy
— Scott Baio (@ScottBaio) April 2, 2016
It's unclear why a barista's unwillingness to yell out an obviously fake name and publicly embarrass themselves automatically means they'll vote for Bernie Sanders. This stunt (not a particularly novel one ever since the first time someone pulled it, to be honest) has backfired on other jokesters as well — most recently a woman who tried passing her latte off as Beyoncé's. But Baio is pretty sure he's uncovered an anti-Trump conspiracy at the chain, whose unapologetic social activism seems to make it a target. Just last week, the chain ran a full-page Times ad encouraging voters to value "humility" over "ego" and "inclusion" over "exclusion."
So, not surprisingly, Baio and his 103,000 Twitter followers perceive this slight as yet another "war" on conservatives, and it looks like the extremely narrow overlap of die-hard Trump and Charles in Charge fans is already mounting a movement to right the wrongs of American democracy, one fake "Trump" order at a time:
Check out this! @realDonaldTrump I've started the "give the Trump name" #TrumpMovement pic.twitter.com/7cGSgCSaTH
— Scott Baio (@ScottBaio) April 4, 2016
My Dad thanks u for the idea....@ScottBaio @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/jyLfiDkoMO
— Rachel Tagliere (@ratagliere) April 3, 2016
Took friend to Starbucks. Barista wasn't afraid to yell out #Trump Pay #Trump2016 forward #WisconsinPrimary #vote pic.twitter.com/Pv8RM7bIDh
— The GOP now (@TheGOPnow) April 4, 2016
@romanichal_dad Even Starbucks knows how great Trump is..said so right on my coffee this morning pic.twitter.com/90wrOE72gs
— KCTak (@K_C_Tak) April 3, 2016
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