‘Here’s Lori!’ Tucker Carlson Compares Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Jack Nicholson’s Character in ‘The Shining’ After ‘Demented’ Emails Revealed

Tucker Carlson opened his Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” last night by criticizing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after recent “demented” emails were revealed and compared her to Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie “The Shining.”

Carlson said during the segment, “Thanks to an open record request from the Chicago Tribune, we’ve got some of Lori Lightfoot’s emails. Turns out she’s every bit the person you thought she was.”

“In January, for example, Lightfoot told her staff: ‘I need office time every day!’ exclamation point. She wrote that very same line 16 times in a row: ‘I need office time every day!’ ‘I need office time every day!’ ‘I need office time every day!’ And so on. Thirteen more times. Demented,” Carlson explained.

After further quoting various emails that contained repetitive words, Carlson said, “You can picture the scene,” before playing clips from “The Shining.”

Following his playing of the clips, which showed Nicholson’s character berating his wife and then her discovering that he was typing nonsense repetitively, Carlson announced, “Here’s Lori!”

TPUSA’s chief creative officer Benny Johnson shared a clip from the segment on Twitter and said, “Tucker roasts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after newly released emails reveal gross mistreatment of her staff, then compares her to Jack from ‘The Shining:'”

Johnson also quoted Carlson from the clip, who said, “She needs help— but not as much help as her staff needs. Someone ought to stage a hostage extraction for their sake.”

Tucker roasts Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot after newly released emails reveal gross mistreatment of her staff, then compares her to Jack from "The Shining:"

"She needs help— but not as much help as her staff needs. Someone ought to stage a hostage extraction for their sake." pic.twitter.com/cKBJJGGx0U

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 17, 2021

The Washington Examiner reported:

Carlson’s remarks were part of a segment on gun violence in the city of Chicago, a problem which he accused Lightfoot of doing little to solve.

“Lightfoot banned the police from chasing criminals, even in the case of some very serious offensives. Her DA refuses to prosecute many crimes,” Carlson said. “The results? Nearly 200 more people have been murdered this year than last. Many more dead people, hundreds. Yesterday, there was yet another mass killing in Chicago.”

Carlson pointed out that it was the “third mass shooting” the city has seen in just over a week, something he said was “a far greater human tragedy than anything that happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6.”

“Lori Lightfoot did this. But she accepts no responsibility for doing it. Instead, she blames firearms and demands more money from the federal government,” Carlson said before rolling a clip of Lightfoot demanding the federal government take action.

“Cities individually cannot tackle this problem on its own. We just cannot. In Chicago, we’ve done absolutely everything possible and we need help from the federal government because this is a national problem,” Lightfoot said in the clip.

“Lori Lightfoot has no idea what she’s talking about, and in fact … she’s not very interested,” Carlson responded. “As long as her own security detail shows up on time, Lightfoot doesn’t think a lot about crime.”

The Fox News host argued that Lightfoot was too busy trying to implement “radical social change” to care about the gun violence plaguing Chicago, pointing to her display of the “Pan African” flag on Flag Day, which is supposed to be a day celebrating the American flag.

“This is the kind of thing Lori Lightfoot spends her time doing — that and berating her staff,” Carlson said.