Restaurant owner rips Trump Jr. over Obama cookie

The owner of a restaurant where Donald Trump Jr. took a photo with a cookie decorated with a distorted image of Barack Obama has responded, writing that he feels “betrayed and sad.”

Trump Jr. posted the photo of him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at Dallas’s Le Bilboquet restaurant.

After social media users threatened to boycott the restaurant over Trump Jr.’s photo, restaurant owner Stephan Courseau posted on Facebook apologizing and noting that the cookie was not made at the restaurant.

{mosads}”Both Donald Trump Jr. and Ted Cruz were attending a birthday celebration of one of our regular patrons who rented out our venue for a private event,” Courseau wrote. “The party was not for either one of them nor was it any kind of partisan rally. Unfortunately, I was not working yesterday and could not intervene in the unfortunate circumstances that unfolded but I believe I owe you an explanation and an apology.”

Courseau added that he is French and his wife is Mexican, and that they “believe in universal values of love, respect and tolerance” that they have found in Dallas.

“Our friends and patrons represent a wide spectrum of American beliefs including: Republicans, Democrats, and Independents,” he wrote. “What brings them together is the same belief that we can live together with love, respect and tolerance. I made America my home a long time ago because of these values that embody the real American dream.”