Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is under fire for using a shuttered hair salon in San Francisco to get her hair done.
In security camera footage, the powerful California Democrat can be seen walking through eSalon in San Francisco with wet hair – without wearing a mask over her mouth or nose.
Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask – despite constantly lecturing everyone else. We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 2, 2020
Salons in San Francisco have been closed since March. They were notified that they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor hairstyling services only.
Salon owner Erica Kious, who provided the video to Fox News and exposed Pelosi, says one of the stylists who rents a chair from her contacted her Sunday night and told her Pelosi’s assistant contacted him and told him Pelosi would be coming in the next day at 2:45 in the afternoon.
“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen? What do I do?” Kious told Fox News, while noting that she “can’t control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, as “they’re not paying” at this time.
Kious sees Pelosi’s actions as a double standard.
“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News, adding that she “can’t believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. (From the footage, it appears Pelosi had some kind of covering around her neck.)
“We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious said. “It is just disturbing.”
Pelosi, through a spokesperson, says she was unaware she was doing anything wrong.
Kious said Pelosi received a wash and a blow-dry, but told Fox News that “you’re not supposed to blow dry hair” according to coronavirus safety precautions for hair salons.
“I have been fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen,” she explained. “I am a single mom, I have two small children, and I have no income.”
“The fact that they did this, and she came in, it’s like a slap in the face,” she added.