White House: No, Trump Did Not Hack Park Slope Organic Juice Shop's Wordpress Site

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Jose Franco, the 50-year-old owner of Stoop Juice, an organic juice shop on 7th Avenue, noticed something had changed about his shop's official Wordpress site this week. At the tail end of his company slogan, "AUTHENTIC HEALTHY SUSTAINABLE," there was now another phrase: "NO FAT ASSES." And Franco is pretty sure he knows who did it: U.S. President Donald Trump.

UPDATE: Helen Ferre, director of media affairs for the White House, firmly denied in a statement sent to Patch that Trump hacked the Stoop Juice Wordpress site and added the phrase "NO FAT ASSES" to its masthead. She also denied the president prank-called the shop's owner and told him to "Stop being a little b--ch."

"No way," Ferre said.

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The president's motive, the local business owner believes, was to get back at him for his "anti-Trump" Twitter feed. (Which has now been switched to private.)

"Who else would it be?" Franco asked over the phone Thursday afternoon as he served a customer a smoothie. "I have no beef with anybody."

In the weeks before his Wordpress was hacked, Franco said he received three phone calls from a man who sounded exactly like Trump. During the calls, according to Franco, the person on the other end of the line just kept saying "Stop being a little b---h" over and over.

"I could have sworn it was him," Franco said. "I was like, 'What?!' I heard the voice, and I'm like, 'No way.'"

Here's a screenshot of the site's new masthead:

Patch reached out to the White House for comment on Franco's allegations, but did not immediately hear back.

Trump's official spokesman, Sean Spicer, neglected to address the claims at his daily press briefing Thursday. Instead, he fielded questions about the future of American health care and the president's possible coordination with Russia.

Asked if he had any other suspects, Franco thought for a moment. He's sure the guy who manages his Wordpress site wouldn't have done it, he said. And — although his family members think it was probably a customer — he said he can't think of any reason why one of his customers would harbor any ill will.

"I own a juice bar, a vegan and organic juice bar, in the neighborhood," he said. "Why would anybody hack me?"

"I know I'm not crazy," he added.

Franco is now locked out of his Wordpress site, as the hacker apparently changed his login information. When he called Wordpress, he said he was told to call Go Daddy, and when he called Go Daddy, he said he was told the only way to get rid of the words "NO FAT ASSES" would be to do a "hard reset" of the site — which he fears might lower his ranking on Google and harm his business.

Franco's last hope, he said, is "a programmer friend" who "does consulting work in Brooklyn every Sunday and Monday for a Hasidic wholesale company," and might be able to stop by the shop to help him.

Until then, he said, the hacker's message will unfortunately have to remain on the Stoop Juice website.

Franco issued an official press release on his dilemma Thursday afternoon, in an effort to warn his customers — with NYC media outlets as his messengers — to ignore the "NO FAT ASSES" bit on his masthead until it can be fixed.

"It's funny. I get it," Franco said. "But I'll tell you who's not laughing: my wife."

Images via StoopJuice.com