After receiving a $40 tip from former President George W. Bush and snapping a photo with him and his wife, waitress Leisa Smith made the biggest mistake of her young adult life by sharing the picture on Twitter with what many believed was a very despicable caption.
“bush (sic) did 911 but he did me a solid and left me a hella tip #,” she tweeted last Tuesday, only moments after the former president and his wife left the establishment where she works.
According to the U.K.Daily Mail, the backlash was swift and brutal, and for good reason — insulting a man after he gives you a tip and poses in a picture for you is both crude and ignorant.
Plus, as one angry Twitter user wrote, “Bush didn’t ‘do’ 9/11, terrorists did.”
Smith eventually removed the tweet and replaced it with an explanation for why she chose to disparage the former president.
She wrote that she meant the tweet as a sarcastic joke and that she never dreamed of making light of 9/11 or the people who lost their lives that tragic day.