EPA Director Scott Pruitt. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)

Another Trump official eating in D.C. faced the umbrage of a citizen concerned with the administration’s policies and conduct.

D.C. mom and teacher Kristin Mink was having lunch at Teaism when her husband spotted Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She knew immediately she wanted to approach him and give him a piece of her mind.

“I felt those mom instincts rising up,” Mink told DCist. “This is the man trying to steal my son’s future.”

She spent a moment deciding what she would say. “I wanted to give him the rundown of my thoughts, which is that he should not be running the EPA, but also that I knew some of the specifics of the corruption,” Mink says. “He’s so scandal-ridden and has made so many legislative decisions that are so selfish but, you know, we don’t have all day.”

Pruitt faces mounting questions about the growing list of ethical violations that have been reported, including his costly travel and security expenses, paying a $50/night rent on a Capitol Hill apartment from a lobbyist friend, attempts to score cushy jobs for his wife, daughter, and friends, and more, all while championing environmental deregulation.

Mink approached him with her young son in her arms. “This is my son—he loves animals, he loves clean air, he loves clean water,” she told him, as seen in the video of the exchange her husband recorded. “We deserve to have someone at the EPA who actually does protect our environment, someone who actually does believe in climate change and takes it seriously … I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out.”

Pruitt did not say anything in response. According to Mink, he got up and left by the time she returned to her table.

In June, a slew of Trump officials faced protests where they eat and live. Organizers confronted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen at her home in Alexandria and while she dined at a Mexican restaurant, and descended on the luxury D.C. apartment building that White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller calls home.

Mink’s actions are slightly different, in that she attempted to converse with Pruitt, but she supports the other actions she’s seen.

“They’re also not violent,” she says. “It’s a means of communicating, a means of making other people take notice, a means of making these officials be uncomfortable and be aware of the bad decisions they’re making. It’s our right and our responsibility to speak up, and it’s their responsibility to hear those voices.”

Many participants in these prior actions (and a few who had the bad fortune to share a name with them) have faced online threats and harassment.

Mink says she was aware of the potential consequences and took them into consideration when she decided to publicly post her video of the interaction, which has already been viewed more than 230,000 times on Facebook.

“It’s still something that’s weighing on my mind now,” she says. “I know the trolls are out there and I’ve already gotten many abusive messages, which I expected. It’s important that we not be intimidated into being silenced by online trolls. They might not understand the ramifications of what Scott Pruitt is doing to our environment, but this is for them, too.”