MAGA devotee Mark Da Costa has shut down his restaurant after just six weeks, mocking queer people in a social media post announcing the eatery’s closure.

Da Costa, who once performed on the reality TV singing competition Australian Idol, opened the Bueno Eatery in the Newtown neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, on March 19. Social media users immediately began recommending a boycott of the restaurant, noting that he had previously opened a failed vegan café, Hale and Hearty, and called it a “Trump safe zone” that served pancakes “with a side of racism.” He blamed that restaurant’s closure on the “left-wing fake vegan community,” news.com.au reported.

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He announced the Bueno Eatery’s closure in a message on the restaurant’s now-deleted Instagram account, which had a biography that was recently updated to say “f**k you all,” The Daily Mail reported. All of the restaurant’s social media accounts have since been deleted.

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In the account’s final message, Da Costa reportedly wrote, “We closed. Yeah, we can’t survive in an area where people can’t figure out if they are male, female, dogs or cats…. Your confusion is our gain. He she they them is some weird behavior we are happy to avoid.”

“Unfortunately the owner’s views (Mark Da Costa) are simple,” the transphobic message continued. “You got a d**k you’re male, you got a m**f you’re a female…. What you think you are should be respected, but you cannot force that upon others. You must equally have respect for what other people believe to be truth.”

He concluded his message, writing, “Dont confuse gay with queer. Please. Queers are confused and angry gays are happy and normal.”

When asked about the Bueno Eatery’s closure, he sent news.com.au a statement claiming that the Newtown neighborhood was “infested with rats and hairy men,” adding, “What a sh*t hole. Releasing a song about it in June … so that you can be offended by it. F**kin snowflakes. The lot of them.” He also called the news outlet’s inquiring journalist “a b**ch.”

Photos of Da Costa showed him wearing a black t-shirt with an illustration of a shirtless and muscular Donald Trump covered in tattoos and wearing a large chain necklace with a dollar sign pendant.

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