An Idaho beauty salon owner said she is seeing customers “dropping like flies” after calling supporters of President-elect Donald Trump “racist, homophobic, and misogynistic.”
Tiffney Prickett of Voiage Salon in Coeur d’Alene said she is “suffering the consequences of my own action” in a TikTok video posted days after the November election, saying that one of her longtime clients demanded a refund after she went on an anti-Trump tirade:
“So this is me suffering the consequences of my own action. I just had a client send her husband into my salon and demand a refund for gift cards — pre-purchased — because of my stance that if you support a racist, homophobic, misogynist rapist, and you’re okay with those things because you supported them that you are in fact those things,” Prickett said. “And she was so offended by that, he said she did not feel comfortable coming to my salon anymore.”
Prickett added that the client she lost had been coming to her for 15 years and was “very good” to her.
“I didn’t want to deal with them anyway because I knew that that whole family were Trump supporters because I’ve been doing her for 15 years, I’ve been to her family functions and family events. She’s given me gifts over the years. She was a very good client,” the stylist said.
“I knew she was a Republican, which I don’t have a problem with you being a Republican. I have a problem with you wanting to strip human rights away from people,” she added. “I will stand up for human rights and suffer those consequences.”
In a follow-up video posted this week, Prickett said, “They’re dropping like flies. I lost another one of my clients today who clearly was a Trump supporter”:
According to Prickett, she would “rather go work at Chipotle” than have Trump voters “feel comfortable” at her place of business.
“So, again I’m reaping what I sow,” she added. “I’m suffering the consequences of my own actions. But I stand by what I said.”
The Voiage Salon website has since been set to “private.”
Idaho salon’s customers ‘dropping like flies’ after owner’s tirade about ‘racist, homophobic, misogynistic’ Trump voters
The divorced mother of three suggested that men usually “shrug [it] off” when another man is mistreating a woman.
“I don’t understand why more men don’t have the courage to stick up to these small men who think they can do whatever they want and say whatever they want to women. And I’m just f–king sick of it,” the stylist concluded.
It did not take long for the businesswoman in the deep red state to find herself in a hairy situation with many of her patrons.
“So this is me suffering the consequences of my own action. I just had a client send her husband into my salon and demand a refund for gift cards — pre-purchased — because of my stance that if you support a racist, homophobic, misogynist rapist, and you’re OK with those things because you supported them that you are in fact those things,” she explained in a subsequent video.
“And she was so offended by that, he said she did not feel comfortable coming to my salon anymore.”
She said there was no love lost on her end in parting with the 15-year client.
“I didn’t want to deal with them anyway because I knew that that whole family were Trump supporters because I’ve been doing her for 15 years, I’ve been to her family functions and family events. She’s given me gifts over the years. She was a very good client,” Prickett said, seeming to realize the depth of her loss as she recounted their past.
“I knew she was a Republican, which I don’t have a problem with you being a Republican. I have a problem with you wanting to strip human rights away from people,” she added.
“I will stand up for human rights and suffer those consequences.”
After the backlash mounted, Prickett responded to comments that she was “wrong” and would “lose her business.”
“If I lose my business because … I posted a video that said if you support a racist, misogynist, homophobic rapist, and you’re OK with it, then you are those things, I guess I lose my business,” she said unapologetically.
Prickett responded simply, “No” and explained that the difference between Trump supporters and herself is not one of “opinion” but of “morals.”
In a video from last week, Prickett revealed that she lost even more Trump-supporting clients, saying, “They’re dropping like flies.”
Prickett added for emphasis that she would “rather go work at Chipotle” than allow Trump supporters to “feel comfortable” in her salon.
Since her tirade went viral, the website for Prickett’s Voiage Salon no longer appears to be active.
Ex-NYPD inspector ‘skeptical’ UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killer was a hitman
Former NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor Paul Mauro said the type of weapon used by the gunman who murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan Hilton hotel Wednesday could work to police’s advantage, and addressed rumors the suspect may have worked as a hitman.
“The speculation is that it’s a hitman, it’s a professional killer and all this sort of stuff … I would just hesitate on that and tell people to just be mindful of the fact that professional hitmen primarily exist in the movies. They don’t really exist,” Mauro told Fox News Digital. He said everything we know at this point is just speculation.
In video obtained by Fox News Digital, Thompson is seen walking down a sidewalk outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday when a masked man guns him
“What we know so far is that he was very calm, he clearly knew the route … it doesn’t mean it wasn’t a murder for hire. Those things do happen. The idea that this is a ‘professional shooter’ I am skeptical of,” Mauro said.
Mauro said what makes this case even more interesting is the type of gun that was used.
“Now he looks like he’s got either a very long barrel or a silencer. Silencers are de facto illegal, and they’re very, very hard to come by. So a lot of them are homemade. That said, it could just be a long-barrel gun,” Mauro explained.
“The gun appears to need to be racked after each shot. Unusual.”
He added that there are guns like that, and they’re designed to suppress the sound, but that there are also features that can be added to keep the slide of a semi-automatic gun from racking.
“That means that after you shoot, you’re going to have to rack the slide of the gun in order to shoot again. He does that in the video, which argues that he may have added, and he may have modified the gun because these are sort of aftermarket things that you can add to the gun,” Mauro said.
“So what I would say is, [he] is somebody with a familiarity with guns and, particularly, this gun looks to be a rare type of gun. And that’s a data point that the police can chase down.”
Multiple law enforcement contacts told Fox News that they believed the weapon used in the murder resembled a Welrod, a bolt-action, suppressed pistol first used in World War II.
“I’d bet my pension that this is the weapon that was used on the United CEO. It’s very, very quiet and requires manual cycling after each round is fired. Top choice by pros for up-close, quiet work,” the source told Fox News.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden also told Fox News Digital the first item in terms of forensic pathology is determining whether the bullets passed through.
“If the bullets are in and out, they’ve got to really look for the bullets at the scene, and not wait until after the autopsy,” Baden said.
Baden said this was crucial for investigators because the streets could be cleaned by then so that could prohibit them from finding where the bullets went and their path.
He added that Thompson probably died so quickly because his lungs were injured, but that investigators will know more in the next 24 to 48 hours.
“They’ll know how many shots were fired, whether any went in and out, they’ll recover the bullets and get more information, in addition to what they already have on the shell casings,” Baden said. “The unshot bullets are interesting, but irrelevant as far as saying that it came from his gun — if they find the gun.”
The Hilton hotel was hosting the UnitedHealthcare annual investors’ meeting, and police said Thompson had been in town from Minnesota since Monday and was staying across the street.
Mauro believes that since Thompson had been there since Monday, the shooter would have had other opportunities to go after him, but the convention seems to be the jumping-off point.
New York City Crimestoppers is offering a combined reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment.
