COVID-19 and a secret haircut club brought back the White House barbershop

WASHINGTON — As COVID-19 lockdowns shuttered businesses across the nation in early 2020, West Wing aides began to sidle off into a downstairs bathroom in the next-door Eisenhower Executive Office Building — for appointments with a black-market barber, The Post has learned.

With barbers across downtown Washington closed under local orders, the underground operation kept then-President Donald Trump’s staff looking their best as they battled a once-in-a-century pandemic. The service was so popular that the Trump White House re-established an official barbershop after years without one — and it appears the Biden administration has kept it around.