A small restaurant in Duluth, Minnesota, faced social media backlash over a simple business decision to allow a major news network to broadcast a popular morning show from its quaint café.

The Thursday morning broadcast followed President Donald Trump’s campaign rally at Amsoil Arena in Duluth the night before.

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Uncle Loui’s general manager Matt Berthiaume joined Fox News host Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” Thursday night to discuss what happened. “Within probably 10 to 15 minutes into our Facebook post, we had about 100 comments or so, and a lot were pretty negative,” said Berthiaume.

“It is beyond nasty,” said Ingraham, suggesting Berthiaume’s understated characterization of the comments was perhaps a bit too kind.

Berthiaume agreed.

“The leftists will want to rip you to shreds because you had, you know, [Steve] Doocy on set. It was ridiculous,” Ingraham added.

“It breaks my mom’s heart,” said Berthiaume, referring to one particularly nasty comment that falsely and cruelly cast the family as white supremacists.

“We love the people of this city,” he added. “And for someone that’s come in here before — and my mom probably knows their order and has seen them a million times — to have [those people] say those things about this place was heartbreaking for her.”

“‘Shop local’?” said Ingraham, mocking the obvious hypocrisy of the liberals who attacked the café, also noting that Berthiaume’s mother was apolitical. “No. It’s ‘boycott local,’ or ‘be mean to local.’ But they don’t really mean ‘shop local.’ It’s ‘shop local liberal store owners.'”

Berthiaume explained that when his mother, shop owner Debra Strop, agreed to allow “Fox & Friends” to broadcast from the café, she did not fully understand the political blowback that might ensue on social media.

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Uncle Loui’s June 14 tweet announced it would be hosting the show and invited patrons to come be a part of the live, national broadcast.

A quick look at Uncle Loui’s Twitter page tells an interesting tale. It highlights just how determined some leftists are to punish and shame anyone who dares lend a modicum of support — or merely a neutral stance — when it comes to President Trump and his administration and policies.

Uncle Loui’s Twitter page had fewer than 100 followers. It hadn’t garnered a single reply to a tweet (many of which were links to its Facebook page, which is more active) in the past five years — save one.

When word got out that “Fox & Friends” was going to broadcast from Uncle Loui’s, some liberal, creepily determined social media attack dogs wasted no time in sniffing out the restaurant’s rarely trafficked Twitter page to bite the owners’ heads off.

Though the shop suffered some ugly social media comments even from long-time customers, on balance, the positive expressions of support outweighed the negative. Even on Facebook, where the conversation was most intense, 287 of 352 reactions were either of the thumbs-up or heart variety.

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As has become par for the course, liberals take out their hatred of the president on any convenient target. For restauranteurs, that is often Yelp, the crowdsourced repository of consumer reviews on popular products and services.

Some vindictive liberals shamelessly showed their true colors, not even bothering to hide the fact that their one-star rating of the restaurant was based solely on Thursday’s broadcast on the Fox morning show.

One brazen “reviewer” who left one star simply said, “Too political for my taste.”

Another, called “Joe A.,” spewed a political tirade masquerading as a “review” of the restaurant. Ironically, “Joe A.’s” one-star rating mentioned that “the people seem nice and the food was good.”

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Apparently, even a tasty breakfast served with a smile cannot overcome some liberals’ hatred and determination to attack folks whose political opinions may differ from their own.

Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.

(photo credit, homepage image and article image: Uncle Louis Café)