Sean Spicer's 'Thinly Veiled Racism' Shocked Indian-American Woman At Viral Apple Store Encounter

President Donald Trump's press secretary was at a loss for words when a woman confronted him at an Apple Store this past weekend.

Sean Spicer appeared to have been purchasing an Apple Watch, as New York Magazine pointed out, when the woman approached him and started grilling him on camera.

Shree Chauhan, 33, said she was "Asking @PressSec questions in Apple Store since he doesn't like the press" in the video of their awkward encounter.

"How does it feel to work for a fascist?" she asks, as Spicer tries to ignore her. "Have you helped with the Russia stuff? Are you a criminal as well? Have you committed treason, too, just like the president?"

Spicer had little to say except "thank you very much and "such a great country that allows you to be here."

Chauhan later wrote a Medium post about the incident, saying she was at the store to fix her iPhone—which shattered on election night, ironically—when she spotted Spicer.

"I realized what an enormous opportunity it was to get answers without the protections normally given to Mr. Spicer," she wrote. "I was honestly quite nervous and wanted to come up with more cogent questions but did not have time to do so.

"As someone that has lived in Washington, D.C. for nearly a decade, it is customary to give public figures their space," she explained. But, she added, "given what Mr. Spicer and his boss are doing to this country, I do not believe they are entitled to these norms and customs."

Chauhan, who is Indian-American, said she was particularly disturbed by Spicer's suggestion that she was "allowed" to be in the United States. She deemed the comment "thinly veiled racism."

"I am still stunned by the boldness of having my citizenship threatened on camera," Chauhan wrote. "I was not polite. But when does being impolite mean that I should be thrown out of the United States of America? The country I was born in, the country I was raised in, the country I love despite its flaws."

Chauhan later told The Daily Mail that she's been concerned about her own safety and her future in the U.S.— even though she's a natural-born citizen—ever since Trump was elected.

"I have spent enough time online to encounter rabid Trump supporters," she continued. "Many of these folks see my brown skin and question my citizenship. ... It’s one thing to have a Twitter egg tell say you do not belong in America, it is quite another to have the Press Secretary of the United States of America do so. I am still astounded. And while I am fearless, I wonder how this administration will use its power to silence ordinary people like me."

You can read Chauhan's entire statement here.