The problem isn't him eating a steak in front of her. That's life, it's not a bubble to protect her, she has to suck it up. The problem is it appears he's doing it in a setting that has no reasonable expectation of dining taking place, deliberately to be disrespectful. I eat pork. I have Muslim friends. I'm not going to not eat pepperoni pizza around them. But that doesn't mean I carry around a giant pork chop and start gnawing on it anytime they enter the room
honestly it doesnt even shock me. Like people are dicks but especially politicians. Like what vegan goes on fox news and expects to receive a polite treatment just like what right wing christian goes on cnn and expects the same. Especially in politics people are often ignorant and blatantly dicks to people of other beliefs.
News to me.