Mitch McConnell Confronted At Kentucky Restaurant (VIDEO)

LOUISVILLE, KY — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was confronted at a Louisville restaurant on Friday night while he was dining with his wife.

"Why don't you get out of here?", "Why don't you leave the entire country?" a man is heard telling McConnell at Louisville's Havana Rumba restaurant, video obtained by TMZ shows. According to TMZ, a total of four men confronted McConnell.

As the man in the video confronts the Republican senator from Kentucky, people can be heard telling him to leave McConnell alone. "Ditch Mitch!" another person shouts.

Per TMZ, the man also took McConnell's doggy bag and threw it. During the encounter, McConnell sat calmly at the table across from his wife; Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

At a rally in Kentucky last week, McConnell was praised by President Donald Trump, who called out the veteran senator's role in getting Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court despite the accusation of sexual misconduct made against the nominee. Trump said the Kentucky senator, "refused to cave to the radical Democrats' shameful campaign of personal and political destruction."

"He stared down the angry left-wing mob. He never blinked and he never looked back and he got us a man who will be one of our great, great Supreme Court justices," Trump said.

McConnell was also in the news recently for telling Bloomberg News that the rising U.S. budget deficit was due to spending on entitlements like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. The federal budget deficit hit $779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year, the highest it has been in six years as the GOP-passed tax bill caused the government to borrow more heavily in order to cover its spending, according to the Associated Press.

McConnell joins a list of officials pushing conservative and pro-Trump policies who have been confronted in public. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, Department of Homeland Security head Kirstjen Nielsen was shouted out of a Mexican restaurant in Washington D.C. when there was extreme public anger about the family border separation policy and in September, Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, was driven out of a D.C. restaurant by protesters who confronted him over his support for Brett Kavanaugh.

You can see the video via TMZ here.

Reporting from The Associated Press was used in this story.

Photo by Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press