Nancy Pelosi's thoughts on Trump's address

We now know what Nancy Pelosi thinks of Trump's 'State of the Union' address !!!

Nancy Pelosi rips up Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address

Richard Hartley-ParkinsonWednesday 5 Feb 2020 7:07 am
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Nancy Pelosi offers her hand to the president but he ignores her

US President Donald Trump declared America is ‘stronger than ever before’ in his State of the Union address on the eve of his probable impeachment acquittal.

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of the speech after Mr Trump finished. Mr Trump, the first president to run for re-election after being impeached, received a partisan welcome to the House of Representatives, with some Republicans chanting ‘Four more years’ while Democrats stood silently.

He said: ‘America’s enemies are on the run, America’s fortunes are on the rise and America’s future is blazing bright. In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America’s destiny. We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back.’

Setting a measure for success and then contending he had surpassed it, Mr Trump has gone from an inaugural address that decried ‘American carnage’ to extolling the ‘Great American comeback’, claiming credit for the nation’s economic success as a chief rationale for a second term.


Nancy Pelosi ripped up the speech soon after Trump finished speaking (Picture: Reuters)
Republican members of Congress applauded nearly every sentence of Mr Trump’s speech, often leaping to their feet to cheer him.

In the nationally televised speech, Mr Trump was speaking from the House of Representatives, on the opposite side of the Capitol from where the Senate is expected to acquit him on Wednesday, largely along party lines.

Mr Trump aimed to spend the first part of his speech highlighting the economy’s strength, including low unemployment, stressing how it has helped blue-collar workers and the middle class, though the period of growth began under his predecessor, Barack Obama.

And what Mr Trump calls an unprecedented boom is, by many measures, not all that different from the solid economy he inherited from Mr Obama.

Economic growth was 2.3% in 2019, matching the average pace since the Great Recession ended a decade ago in the first year of Mr Obama’s eight-year presidency. Mr Trump had promised much higher.



The speaker holds up the speech in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives (Picture: Getty)

She offered her hand, but Trump denied it, turning his back on her (Picture: AP)
In delivering his speech, Mr Trump stood before the politicians who voted to remove him from office – and those who are expected to acquit him when the Senate trial comes to a close.

Over his shoulder, visible in nearly every camera shot, was Ms Pelosi, a frequent thorn in Mr Trump’s side who authorised the impeachment proceedings that charged the president with abusing the power of his office to push Ukraine to investigate political foe Joe Biden.

Ms Pelosi created a viral image with her seemingly sarcastic applause of the president a year ago.

This time, she ripped up her copy of Mr Trump’s speech as he ended his address.

When Mr Trump entered the chamber, he did not take her outstretched hand but it was not clear he had seen her gesture. Later, as Republicans cheered, she remained in her seat.



Republican members of Congress applauded nearly every sentence of Mr Trump’s speech (Picture: AP)
In advance of his address, Mr Trump tweeted that the caucus chaos in Iowa showed Democrats were incompetent and should not be trusted to run the government.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was to deliver the Democratic Party’s official response to Mr Trump’s address and, in excerpts released before the speech, was to draw a contrast between actions taken by Democrats and the president’s rhetoric.

‘It doesn’t matter what the president says about the stock market,’ Ms Whitmer says.

‘What matters is that millions of people struggle to get by or don’t have enough money at the end of the month after paying for transportation, student loans, or prescription drugs.’


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Childish shit, that will backfire

Just checked Trump's twitter, he hasn't tweeted anything about her ripping up the speech yet.

So good, he has taken the high road

Seriously, she is like the 2nd highest ranking female politician in the world after Merkel, has a responsibility, was it worth it having that image attached to her for the rest of her career?

 

Wow, Trump hasn't tweeted a response to someone disagreeing with him yet? Yeah, he's on the high road for sure this time. Any other president would have tweeted about it hours ago. I wonder what Trump's next tweet will be...

 

Perhaps she's scared him shitless !!! (we hope !)

 

Trump isn't afraid of anything. Except being in an actual armed conflict for the sake of his country. Pretty much, death, he's terrified of that.

 

Trump didn't shake Pelosi's hand. Was a petty move, and he makes everyone around him petty.

 

He gave the freaking Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh. I'm sorry, but getting cancer from smoking big fat cigars constantly doesn't qualify one for that honor.

 

Hopefully he does take the high road more often now, then he has 2nd term in the bag

 

He is in no position to take the high road. He isn't a great president. He has completely divided the country. If he had merit to stand on, that'd be one thing, but he doesn't. And he won't take the high road, because that's just not his character. He loves the sound of his own voice too much.

But I suppose it's a nice dream for his supporters who are secretly embarrassed by him.

 

Tearing up the speech was kinda "low class"

She should have sucker punched him right in the nose....

 

Unless the country wants to be divided

Exactly what you expressed there is the mistake the Brits made 6 weeks ago


Time to hunker down and look after your own

 

The country doesn't want to be divided, but Republicans by and large make unity impossible, because they literally do not give a damn about anyone but themselves. They're total snobs and vindictive assholes.

 

Maybe it's time to take some personal responsibility and stop just blaming the other side all the time

 

Something about pots and kettles comes to mind about that remark !!!

 

It's not like that, though. Every Republican I know is divisive, and they've all been bigots as well. And I've still tried my best to be friends with them, and that's what I see from the Democratic party in general as well. But they make it impossible, because they simply aren't interested in peace. You don't really have to look any farther than their policies to see that they're in the wrong, though.

I always keep an open mind, but in my experience it's only a matter of time before they start talking about faggots and niggers. That really is what they're all about.

 

She’s like 80 years old though lol Grow up, all of them. On both sides.

Makes me want to move to New Zealand...

 

I've been doing some research, lol

New Zealand seems like one of the easiest countries for an American to emigrate. It'll be my top choice if I ever move abroad

 

lol Perfect!

I have always lived in the US, and think it's a great country in many ways, but we're just so divided.

 

I'm not really worried about the division between normal people, I think the internet tends to magnify that and make it worse than it seems.

I'm more worried about the monied interests in this country. America is basically an oligarchy at this point