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Kari Lake, the oft-defeated Republican from Arizona who President Donald Trump made the head of Voice of America, which she is eliminating, reportedly made a fool of herself at a place called Ned’s.

“The glamour of the Roaring Twenties is something I really want to capture,” Gareth Banner, Ned’s managing director, said in a Washington Post feature on the DC property.

On any given night, according to the Post, a guest at Ned’s could spot Trump Cabinet officials and members of the Democratic leadership alike, according to the Post: Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary; Howard Lutnick, the secretary of Commerce; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., the head of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee; and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

With Ned Beatty serving as the perfect comic foil as his bumbling henchman Otis, Hackman’s playful brand of evil mastermindery would go on to set the template for future comic-book antagonists, from Jack Nicholson’s Joker to Tom Hiddleston’s Loki.

"Salem has lost a dedicated father, husband, and community member," Governor Ned Lamont wrote on social media.