Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Rips Democrat Mayors' Woke Policies on Bill Maher: "I Don’t Want to Hear Another Word About the Bathroom. You Better Start Focusing on the Classroom" (VIDEO)

In response to current Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s single-digit approval rating, Emanuel slammed Democratic policies for high crime, leading to everything being locked behind glass at CVS and Walgreens. He says the priorities of every mayor should be “Safe streets, strong schools, stable finances.”

“I don’t want to hear another word about the locker room. I don’t want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom,” Emanuel said to loud applause from the audience.

“If I’d known that I could have said the word ‘they’ and got in the girl’s bathroom, I would have done it!” he said in jest.

Emanuel was joined on the panel by liberal pundit Fareed Zakaria, who agreed, “this is a huge Democratic Party problem,” adding that Democrat cities are “terribly run” and have the highest cost of living due to their prioritization of woke education and soft on crime policies.

Watch below:

Maher: I read that the current Mayor of Chicago has an approval rating of 6.6%… What’s going on in Chicago?

Emanuel: Look, and then you got mayors, like the mayor of San Francisco and other cities that are doing well. So, I would say, look, there is a general rule; I had this when I was mayor: Safe streets, strong schools, stable finances. Focus on those three things, and your city is going to be fine. We’ve gone through five years where people became way too permissive in culture. They were all— which is why everything’s locked up at Walgreens and CVS, and that is a disaster.

And I’ll say this about our schools, I don’t want to hear another word about the locker room. I don’t want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom. I’m not wrong. We had the worst reading scores for eighth graders in 30 years. And nobody, not a governor, not a mayor, not a president, not a Secretary of Education is talking about it. We’re all wrapped up. Look, in seventh grade, if I’d known that, I could have said the word ‘they’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it!

Zakaria: This is a huge Democratic Party Problem. If you look at democratic cities, they are terribly run. They have incredibly high taxes. It is impossible to build so the cost of housing… cost of housing is crazy in places like New York and Chicago. If you look at democratic states, you know, look, you go look at New York versus Florida. Okay? Roughly the same population.