Mayor Lori Lightfoot to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: ‘Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth’
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany attacked Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday, calling her “the derelict mayor of Chicago” because she is not asking President Donald Trump for crime-fighting help.
She pivoted to Lightfoot, calling her “derelict” as she was being pressed to explain why Trump, who, when asked in a CBS News interview why Blacks in the U.S. are killed by police, said, “So are white people.”
Lightfoot smacked back in a tweet, “Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth.”
According to urbandictionary.com, Karen is “the stereotypical name associated with rude, obnoxious and insufferable middle aged white women.”
A source close to Lightfoot confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that Lightfoot used Karen in that context.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/7/16/21327954/chicagos-lori-lightfoot-white-house-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-hey-karen-watch-your-mouth