Thursday, March 28, 2024

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Defends Decision to Get Haircut Amid Coronavirus Crisis [VIDEO]

*Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has defended her decision to get her hair cut while the rest of the city is under a stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Lightfoot is facing backlash after she violated her own quarantine advice over the weekend to go to a hair salon, and her stylist spilled the tea on social media.

The mayor said the haircut was mandatory because she is the “public face of this city”

“I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye,” she responded to a reporter. “I take my personal hygiene very seriously. As I said, I felt like I needed to have a haircut. I’m not able to do that myself, so I got a haircut. You want to talk more about that?”

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Lori Lightfoot
CHICAGO, IL – APRIL 3: One of 500 beds in Hall C Unit 1 of the COVID-19 alternate site at McCormick Place on Friday, April 3, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Gov. Pritzker And Mayor Lightfoot toured what will be a 3,000-bed medical facility to treat less seriously-ill COVID-19 patients built in a collaborative effort involving the Illinois National Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and trade unions. (Photo by Chris Sweda-Pool via Getty Images)

The controversy began on Sunday after a woman posted photos on Facebook saying she “had the pleasure of giving Mayor Lightfoot a hair trim.”

Lightfoot noted that she is “practicing what I’m preaching” as the hair stylist wore a mask and gloves.

“I think what really people want to talk about is, we’re talking about people dying here. We’re talking about significant health disparities. I think that’s what people care most about,” the mayor continued.

The mayor followed up with a humorous video posted to Twitter, in which Lightfoot tells a friend on the phone that “Getting your roots done is not essential.

Watch Mayor Lightfoot defend her haircut in the clip above.

On Tuesday, Lightfoot signed an exec-order ensuring that all immigrants — including illegal Aliens — are eligible to receive the city’s coronavirus benefits.

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