Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Isn't Holding Back: Trump's Coronavirus Task Force Is 'Clueless'

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For the past two months, as the novel coronavirus silently crept through her city, Lori Lightfoot, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, tried in vain to get the attention of the Trump White House. She wrote letters to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the White House Coronavirus Task Force, pleading with them to coordinate their response efforts with the local leaders who would have to implement their “edicts,” as Lightfoot calls them.

After months of getting no response, and as the number of cases in Chicago climbed, Lightfoot, the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the nation’s third-largest city, took to the president’s two favorite mediums, TV and Twitter. On the Today show last month, she blasted the president for making statements about the coronavirus that “are not based in fact or science and are just wildly wrong.” On Twitter, she told Trump to “step up and be a leader” or get out of the way.

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Back home, her dour-faced admonitions to “stay home, save lives” have become viral meme fodder. Stir-crazy Chicagoans have reimagined her as her city’s omnipresent guardian, a public-health Batman watching over the city and hell-bent on keeping people off the beaches and out of the streets.

Finally, on Sunday evening, Lightfoot and Pence spoke by phone to discuss Chicago’s dire need for more masks and ventilators. On Monday, the state of Illinois reported more than 1,000 new cases, with the death toll at 307 people. Lightfoot’s office described the call with Pence as “cordial,” which is about as polite as the mayor has sounded when talking about the Trump White House and its efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-coronavirus-kushner-white-house-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-mike-pence-979676/

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1. K&R

Dem leadership

[frazzled]

2. Local pastry shop...

Vanille Patisserie, honors Lori’s no nonsense corona leadership



Chicago leadership macarons, with Governor Pritzger



And Dr. Fauci stud muffins!

[crickets]

3. Damn, Lightfoot has got this public messaging thing down cold.

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I am so impressed with her. She is knowledgeable, as prepared as she can be under the circumstances, and pushing hard to do the best she can for Chicago. If only we could have someone like her in Washington.

Oh. Yeah.