CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Mayor Lightfoot says she has no regrets about a coded obscenity she had for President Trump two weeks ago and says it’s different than a police officer making an obscene gesture.
You might recall Mayor Lightfoot had harsh words for Trump late last month as he tweeted support for shooting looters if George Floyd protests escalated.
"I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump. It’s two words. It begins with F and it ends with U,” she said then.
Tuesday, she was asked how that differed from a Chicago Police officer’s obscene gesture that got him stripped of his police powers. Images of the gesture were widely seen on social media.
“I think there’s a big difference,” Lightfoot said. “First of all, I’m a public official and I coded my words. This officer is sworn to serve and protect the community.
“And in a heated circumstance, no doubt, he went against his training.”
Lightfoot says she will continue to fight “racism, homophobia (and) xenophobia” coming out of the White House.
Trump later tried to walk back his tweet about looting — in which he said, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” — and said he was not aware of the phrase’s racist origins.