President Donald Trump weighed in on the controversy surrounding the White House press secretary being asked to leave a Virginia restaurant over the weekend, saying the eatery should “focus on cleaning” instead of refusing to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

​”The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders​,” Trump posted on his Twitter account. “I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!​”​

​Huckabee Sanders and other diners in her party were asked to leave by the owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., ​on Friday night.

​”Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left​,” Huckabee Sanders wrote in a tweet Saturday. “Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so​.”​

​Stephanie Wilkinson, the restaurant’s owner, said she asked Huckabee Sanders to leave the 26-seat restaurant because of her work defending an “inhumane and unethical” administration.

​Wilkinson said she ​confronted the press secretary.

“I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion,” Wilkinson ​told the Washington Post. “I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.

“I said, ‘I’d like to ask you to leave​,​’ ”​ she told the newspaper.​

T​he incident involving Huckabee Sanders happened just days after a crowd of protesters ​heckled Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant on Tuesday, just hours after she defended the Trump administration’s immigration policy that led to children being separated from their parents at the Mexican border.

​And l​ast Sunday, a patron of the restaurant Espita Mezcaleria approached Trump aide Stephen Miller — a hard-liner on immigration who also decided to go out for Mexican — calling him a “fascist” to his face, a source told the ​New York ​Post.