Sliced lemons at room temperature. Expired milk still in the refrigerator. Salted butter left on the counter. A sink without soap.

This was the scene a health official in New Jersey walked into one morning last month during a routine inspection in the rural township of Bedminster, New Jersey, her third review of a food establishment that week.

But this was not any ordinary restaurant: It was the Trump National Golf Club, a favored getaway for its owner, President Donald Trump.

For more than three hours, the inspector tallied enough violations — a faulty dishwasher, poorly stocked sinks, improperly stored raw meat among the 18 noted, half of them critical — to give the club a score of 32 out of 100, one of the lowest ratings earned by any establishment in Somerset County this year. She ordered immediate fixes.

Many improvements were made, with the club receiving an 86 on a follow-up visit Wednesday — with two critical violations among new ones noted — but not without drawing the anger of Trump National.

“This is clearly nothing more than a politically motivated attack,” the club’s general manager, David Schutzenhofer, said in a statement.

“Never before have we witnessed such visceral hostility from the Health Department,” he added. “We operate one of the most immaculate golf facilities in the country, and we take immense pride in our standards of cleanliness, safety and hospitality.”

A spokesperson for the Trump Organization, which owns the property, did not respond to questions about what exactly about the inspection suggested that it had been politically motivated. On the same day the inspection took place, a different inspector gave a restaurant elsewhere in the county a nearly identical grade, a 33, after uncovering similar violations.

The Somerset County Health Department declined to discuss the inspections.

Trump National features several dining rooms , and its website boasts that the club uses the finest and freshest ingredients.