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Trump torches Pelosi for getting hair done in salon and not wearing mask: 'Constantly lecturing everyone else'

Pelosi is seen in a video walking through the salon with wet hair and without a face covering

President Donald Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, September 2 for "constantly lecturing everyone else" about coronavirus safety guidelines after she visited a San Francisco hair salon earlier this week despite local ordinances that keep salons closed amid the pandemic. Pelosi's visit to the salon was first reported by Fox News, which obtained CCTV footage from the salon. The California congresswoman is seen walking through the salon with wet hair and without a face covering. She wears a black face mask before the stylist does her hair.

"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," Trump tweeted. "We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!"

San Francisco salons have remained shuttered down since March and were allowed to reopen after a September 1 notification for outdoor hairstyling services only. Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, September 1, salon owner Erica Kious shared details of Pelosi's visit — explaining that the House Speaker has hired personal stylists who rent chairs in her salon.

“One of the stylists who rents a chair from me contacted me Sunday night,” Kious said. "I’ll be there at 2:45 tomorrow. Pelosi assistant just messaged me to do her hair[sic]," read a text message Kious said she received from one of Pelosi's stylists. “I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen? What do I do?” Kious told Fox News, explaining that she "can't control” what her stylists do if they rent chairs from her, as “they’re not paying” at this time.

According to Kious, Pelosi had displayed a glaring 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 couldn't believe Pelosi didn’t have a mask on. However, it appears the Speaker had some kind of covering around her neck, per the footage.

“We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious added. “It is just disturbing.” Trump later added that “the Beauty Parlor owner must really dislike Crazy Nancy Pelosi. Turning her in, on tape, is a really big deal.”

“She probably treats him like she treats everyone else…And she strongly supported a Kennedy who just lost in, of all places, Massachusetts!” he tweeted.

Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill defended the speaker when asked for comment, insisting that she was following the rules as presented to her. “The speaker always wears a mask and complies with local Covid requirements. This business offered for the speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business. The speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment,” he said.

But Kious was having none of it. She noted that Pelosi had received a wash and a blow-dry when “you’re not supposed to blow dry hair” per Covid-19 safety guidelines for hair salons. “We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can’t — it’s a feeling — a feeling of being deflated, helpless, and honestly beaten down,” Kious told Fox News.

“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.