L.A. Mayor Says He Held His Breath While Taking Maskless Photo With Magic Johnson

Posted February 2, 2022 by with 5 comments

Can you hold your breath while you’re smiling with your mouth open? I just tried, and yes you can, but it’s awkward.

Congrats to scumbag Eric Garcetti (perhaps the worst and most worthless mayor in modern L.A. history), who says he held his breath during that maskless photo at the indoor football stadium last weekend. “I held my breath” is the new “I didn’t inhale”:

Los Angeles Mayor — and Biden Administration ambassadorial nominee — Eric Garcetti today defended his actions after maskless photos surfaced of him and Lakers great Magic Johnson, along with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, at SoFi Stadium last weekend for the NFC Championship game. Johnson later tweeted a series of photos from the event featuring himself and a number of others in a luxury box overlooking the field. They included Garcetti, Breed and California Governor Gavin Newsom. None of them are wearing masks in the photos, despite a local public health officer order requiring attendees to wear masks at all times during so-called outdoor “mega events.”

“I’ll take personal responsibility,” said Garcetti in answer to a reporter’s question about the photos, “and if it makes you and everyone else happy — or even the photographs with people where literally I’m holding my breath for two seconds — I won’t even do that.”

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