Chicago Mayor Caught On City Council Hot Mike Dropping F-Bomb

CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot dropped the F-bomb during Wednesday's virtual City Council meeting causing a stir on social media.

The mayor could be heard muttering "You’ve got to be f---ing kidding me" shortly after Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez had finished making comments related to a Black History Month resolution.

Sanchez told the Sun-Times that the mayor had quickly texted her to clarify that the profane remark was not in reference to the alderman's public comments. Sanchez told the paper she would take the mayor's clarification as truth and move on.

In her public comments on the resolution honoring Black history, the 33rd Ward alderwoman had made references to embracing "Blackness" in society and that in her opinion “the Latino culture struggles a lot with anti-Blackness.”

On Twitter, some responded to the mayor's foul-mouthed muttering by accusing her of holding racial bias against Hispanic aldermen. Others commented on Lightfoot's lack of "class."

At a post City Council meeting news conference, Lightfoot responded to her social media critics.

"Sorry to disappoint the Twitter trolls, but my comment had nothing to do with anything that was actually going on at City Council," the mayor said.

Lightfoot has been caught making controversial comments at public meetings in the past. A microphone caught her calling a Chicago police union officer an "FOP clown" at an in-person City Council meeting. She apologized that the public heard what she had said, but not for the content of the insult.