WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday defended her speech-ripping performance after President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address and took fresh aim at his fitness for office even as he celebrated his impeachment acquittal.
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“That was not a State of the Union,” Pelosi said. “That was his state of mind.”
She reaffirmed her shredding of Trump’s speech at the end of a difficult week for Democrats in Congress and across the nation that included the botched Iowa caucuses on Monday, Trump’s prime-time address Tuesday and his Senate acquittal on two impeachment articles on Wednesday. Pelosi led the impeachment process in the House.
Only a few hours before her news conference, Trump held up a banner newspaper headline that said, “Acquittal.” Pelosi was also in attendance for the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington and she called his behavior “inappropriate.”
Back in the Capitol, Pelosi again went after Trump’s speech and defended her decision to rip up her copy behind his back, on camera, saying the address revealed “a state of mind that had no contact with reality whatsoever.”
“I’ve extended every possible courtesy. I’ve shown every level of respect,” Pelosi said, describing her public conduct, which included “extending the hand of friendship” to him as Trump arrived. “He looked a little sedated,” she said.
He did not take her hand.
As he spoke, Pelosi said, she quickly read ahead through her copy of the speech. “I saw the compilation of falsehoods.” About one-third of the way through, she said she started to think, “There has to be something that clearly indicates to the American people that this is not the truth.”
And she decided to shred.
“He has shredded the truth in his speech, shredded the Constitution in his conduct. I shredded the address,” she said. “Thank you all very much.”
Basically, what she is saying is that everything she does makes sense, everything the President does makes no sense.
Warped mind.
basically, she was right. the moron in the white house is a liar, nasty, name-caller scumbag
The Wicked Witch of the West could have responded that she was really angry at the President, and additionally irritated that he snubbed her. While i disagree with her completely, she might have sounded minimally justified.
But she is excusing behavior on the floor of Congress that is unbecoming. She is also challenging facts that are clearly true and verified. She may disagree with policy, but cannot quarrel with facts. But when she takes her passionate hate and uses that to rewrite history, she has a big problem. I wish her speedy exit from politics. May anyone following her direction be outvoted in the next elections.
Paul Ryan never did any of these immature shenanigans when Obama droned on for hours and hours.
Tehran Nancy and her #PelosiTantrum.
Vote out all the democrats in November.
I am by far not a fan of President Trump.
However, Pelosi managed to out-Trump Trump with her childish and classless behavior. The Democratic party is basically dead. Hopefully, her actions will help bury Sanders, AOC, et al.
Nervous Nancy is loser of the biggest caliber.
She will together with all her anti American Dem-o-rats lose huge.
Fools I is Obama who saved this country from a financial meltdown caused by fee wheeling shenigangs of a Jewsh [in name only) investment bank
This Fall, the Republicans will gain control of the House of Representatives, and there will be a new Republican Speaker of the House. Therefore, Ms. Pelosi will have her tuchas removed from being seated in back of the President, when he makes his next State of the Union Address. Halevi!
It was horrifying to see Pelosi rip up the speech while the President was still on the podium. If she wanted to protest normally, she did not have to invite him, and he could have spoken elsewhere. Once you are the hostess and you invite the President to be the guest of honor, it is the cruelest thing to show him honor and then slap him in the face. Ripping the papers was like smacking the President in the face. This shows how Pelosi is totally unfit to serve. Yes, the President has said too many nasty remarks, but he never tore up someone’s speech This was disturbing and very hateful and it made me very sad to see the hate that Pelosi is fomenting for no good reason.
Takes two to make a fight.
Which witch is worse. Macshefa Hilary or macshefa Pelosi.
Can anyone imagine what Saddam Hussein would have done, if the individual who had a similar position in his government, engaged in the same type of behavior?