Trump Says He Wants To Get His Hair Cut At Black Barbershop: ‘They Can Make My Hair Look Better’

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News host Lawrence Jones that he would love to get his hair cut at a Black barbershop, expressing confidence in the likely result.

Trump called in for a lengthy and rambling interview on Thursday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends , during which he went off on a 5-minute off-topic tangent, made false attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, and talked about Chicago, host city for the Democratic National Convention ( DNC ).

Along the way, Jones played some clips from his own stop at a Black barbershop in Chicago, and asked Trump ” Will you be on the ground at barbershops, local communities, talking about the issues that matter to them?”

Trump took his response a step or two further than that:

LAWRENCE JONES, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: So, Mister —

TRUMP: If they would have included those numbers, they’re the worst crime numbers we’ve ever had.

JONES: So, Mr. President, let’s talk about Chicago. You brought it up. I had the opportunity — I’ve been going all over Chicago for years now. But I went to a barbershop and there was a lot of people there.

They talked about you. They talked about Kamala Harris stealing the tip plan from you. They say they’re open — this is a little bit from the folks that I talk to. Watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We’ve been doing these barber shop tours since ’03, and it’s really enlightening to hear individuals start to change their political direction. I think it’s time that Blacks in general need to boost our political IQ, stop being blindly faithful to a one-party system that does not work for us.

So I’ve always liked Donald Trump. You know, he was icon for years in our community and, all of a sudden, now he’s this big Klansman (ph).

JONES: What changed?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the — I think the powers that be saw his potential in our community. It’s — if somebody — Republicans started to come and really communicate in the — in these communities, they’ll come to barber shops, and they’ll start to see. We’re talking the same language.

JONES: Uh-huh.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But they don’t have — they don’t — they don’t know how to communicate. So they’d rather not do it.

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JONES: So, Mr. President, he says that you got to directly communicate to the voters. Will you be on the ground at barbershops, local communities, talking about the issues that matter to them?

TRUMP: And I am going to be doing that. I like that guy, and I like those people in — I watched yesterday as you did it. You are doing fantastically, by the way.

I watched yesterday as you did the interviews. Those are great people. Those are people just want safety. They don’t want much. He wants to run his barbershop.

The people that were getting the haircut — I was thinking about maybe going there myself because that’s — they — I like the work, maybe they just — they make my hair look better. I’d pay a lot of money for that haircut. They can make my hair look better.

But you know, honestly, those are great people, those are hardworking people. They’re strong. They’re tough. And they know they’re being conned by the Democrats.

You have a corrupt political system in Chicago. Look at your governor — the governor is an incompetent guy. He was thrown out of the family business. He was — Hyatt Hotels, I was partners with them years ago in a job in New York. They threw him out of the business.

I know the family very well. They threw him out because they didn’t want him in the business.

He ends up being governor. He has money. He ends up being governor. He’s incompetent.

Look, the Chicago and the whole Illinois thing is very, very corrupt, but we’re putting a big play there. We’re putting a big play in New York. You have the same situation in New York.

If you went to a barbershop — any barbershop that you’re talking about, if you went to a barbershop in New York, in Los Angeles, in any place you want to talk about, you’re going to find the same thing, the same reaction.

They’re really upset and I watch the mothers on your show this morning before we went on, so sad. They’ve given up on life, you have the worst prosecutors they go after guys like me, they don’t go — they go after me because I question the elections and things like that.

It’s nonsense. If an election — if you can’t question an election, you — we don’t have a country. But when people get killed, when their children get killed, nothing happens.

I remember Jussie Smollett, I said you got to prosecute this guy and they did. But Jussie Smollett was given a free hand and yet these killers — and they know who they are. The worst thing is they know who they are. They don’t even go and pick them up.

And you have many communities like that. Chicago is terrible in that respect, but you have many communities like that.

Chicago, 20 years ago, was a great city. I built a great building in Chicago. In fact, I see it every time they do the skyline. But Chicago has gone really wrong, and I think I’m going to get a tremendous amount of votes from Chicago.

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