COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – An Idaho salon owner is facing a potential business crisis after posting a controversial TikTok video opposing President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.
Tiffney Prickett’s TikTok videos labeled those of which she disagrees racist, homophobic, and misogynistic – with a focus on the latter. She is the owner of Voiage Salon.
In a subsequent TikTok responding to backlash over her comments, she explains clients are ‘dropping like flies’ and considering alternative employment in fast food.
She’s worked in the salon industry for 22 years.
“Suffering the consequences of my own actions,” Prickett said in a TikTok. “But I stand by what I said.”
Locals in Idaho displayed a monolithic reaction to Prickett’s situation; sympathy was in low supply. Trump won the Gem State with a supermajority.
“Everyone of us is entitled to their own opinion,” local Greg Stafford said. “We believe in what he has accomplished not everything he says and everything he does.”
Another resident, wishing only to be identified as Cherrie, was willing to go on record and largely echoed the sentiment.
“If you’re making a statement like that it’s a sure way to lose business. You are profiling people.”
Prickett denied NonStop Local’s request for an interview Friday. She offered a statement.
“Voiage Salon has always been a safe, kind and respectful place to everyone. No one has ever been denied service for who they vote for nor has anyone ever been asked who they voted for. We will continue to operate under the guidelines of maintaining a kind and respectful environment. We all have differing views, perspectives and opinions. We love our community, and we will continue to support it and give back,” Prickett wrote.
