Apparently, it is okay to lick other people’s donuts and hate America….

….Only if you’re Ariana Grande.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Monday that the owner of Wolfee Donuts has declined to press charges against Grande, who was caught on tape licking several doughnuts on a countertop inside the shop before remarking, “I hate Americans. I hate America.”

Upon release of the video, Wolfee Donuts receiving a downgraded “B” health rating after getting an “A” at its previous inspection for leaving unattended donuts on a countertop.

Wolfee Donuts owner, Joe Marin claims that sales have skyrocketed since the incident (nothing like a little celebrity spit) and that he will not press charges against Grande-despite being penalized by the Health Department. Some may think, Grande got what she deserved when she was replaced by Demi Lovato at the MLB All-Star Game Concert last weekend. Grande stated that she was replaced at the last minute due to “emergency oral surgery.”

Were her teeth rotting out of her head from licking all of those donuts?

Marin has received some backlash of his own for not pressing charges as seen on the company’s Facebook page:

She must have paid you off to keep you from pressing charges. She licked the donuts you sold and them. Then she had emergency dental surgery! What kind of communicable disease or infection did she leave on the donuts you sold!

Donutgate 2015….we love your donuts! And we pay for them like adults so we can lick them in the privacy of our own home next to an American Flag!

“You know what is even more disgusting? A business owner who doesn’t press charges. Saying it is OK to lick our donuts. Our customers don’t matter.”

Grande, of course threw in a halfhearted apology after the incident:

“I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American and I’ve always made it clear that I love my country. As an advocate for healthy eating, food is very important to me and I sometimes get upset by how freely we as Americans eat and consume things without giving any thought to the consequences that it has on our health and society as a whole.”

Apparently, Apology #1 was not enough. Either her publicist asked her to try and remain ummm, “sincere” and issue yet another apology or she decided to take it upon herself to ride the publicity wave and issue yet another apology entitled “Sorry, Babes”….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G6BNwueFdg

To sum it up, Grande apologizes twice for her “puffy cheeks” (she had her wisdom teeth removed-but her eyeliner is perfect) and states that she “like, kinda missed her opportunity to really apologize for (like) not being (like) relative….” RELATIVE. She then goes on to say that she is in fact, “Proud to be American especially with all of the wonderful progressive movements as of late” (yayyyy Hillary) and goes on to state that seeing a video of herself acting badly was a rude awakening, that she “wanted to shove her face in a pillow” and that, to her “babes”, her “loves”, she’s (like) “sorry.”

The apology issued by Grande is nothing less than typical. Reading between the lines, she’s sorry because she got caught. She’s sorry because it was embarrassing to her. She’s sorry to her “loves”, her “babes”-read: the kids who buyher albums. Is she sorry to those in the American public who may not agree with her behavior or philosophies? And would the story be different had Wolfee Dounuts decided to press charges?

Personally, I wish they did. These kids have been saying “sorry” without the consequences. They do stupid things without thinking about the consequences and think “sorry” gets them a pass. There are no consequences and therein lies the problem. They say “sorry” only when it benefits them somehow. (Another PR opportunity? Why, certainly!) Grande stated that she felt like she “missed an opportunity” to convey what she was really feeling–about “healthy eating.” Which is, I guess, why she was in a donut shop licking fat and sugar-laden donuts. Right. She was making a “statement.”

Here’s the deal, Ariana Grande. Check it out, “babe”. While we recognize you for “apologizing”, we could care less about your “statements” on the eating habits of Americans. Instead of thinking about “others” and the “consequences” of what they eat, think about the consequences of your actions. Your mom and dad may have told you that the world was your oyster and “consequences” may not have been part of their parenting repertoire, we realize this. But if you love America-I mean, if you truly love America, take your puffy cheeks (and your puffy ego) on down to Wolfees at 3:00am (or whenever the baker comes in), bake a bunch of donuts, write a huge check and SEND THEM TO THE MEN AND WOMEN SERVING IN THE TRENCHES IN AFGHANISTAN!

Just don’t lick ’em.

UPDATE:

According to Breitbart, Joe Marin, owner of Wolfee Donuts in Lake Elsinore, told Toronto radio station KISS 92.5 that he “doesn’t know” where the report that he declined to file charges “came from” because he wants charges brought against Grande over the incident.

“No, I did press charges,” Marin told the radio station. “And then when I was reading the newspapers, it said my name, that I decided not to, and I don’t know where that came from.”