Pelosi Finally Reveals Why She Tore Up Trump’s State of the Union
In her latest book, The Art of Power, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) explains her dramatic decision to shred a copy of former President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address four years ago.
During Trump’s 2020 State of the Union, Pelosi stood prominently behind him as he delivered his speech. As Trump concluded his address and received applause, Pelosi made headlines by tearing her copy of the speech into pieces, a gesture watched by millions of Americans.
Pelosi reveals that her intention was initially to mark the speech’s falsehoods with small tears on each page. However, as Trump spoke, she was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of inaccuracies she perceived. “It wasn’t just one, two, or three pages with lies; it was pages and pages of them,” she recounts. “In frustration, I ended up ripping the entire document.”
Their relationship was fraught throughout Trump’s presidency. The tension between Pelosi and Trump escalated, particularly over contentious issues such as government funding and border security. In September 2019, Pelosi spearheaded an impeachment inquiry against Trump, accusing him of leveraging his office to solicit foreign interference in his re-election campaign.
Trump vehemently denied these allegations, denouncing the impeachment inquiry as a “fantasy” and an “illegal, partisan, attempted coup” in a December letter to Pelosi. He accused the Democrats of undermining American democracy for their own political gain. “You are the people meddling in U.S. elections. You are the people subverting American Democracy,” Trump wrote. “You are the people bringing pain and suffrage to our Republic for your own private, political, and partisan gain.”
Less than two months after this contentious exchange, Pelosi publicly displayed her disdain by tearing up Trump’s State of the Union address. Reflecting on their tumultuous interactions, she writes in her book, “After many conversations with him, I often thought, ‘Either you are ignorant, or you believe everyone else is.’”
Pelosi is a self serving narcissist who needs to go away and stfu nobody cares what she thinks or says
She is too old . She should completely retire.
I hope she doesn’t sell a single copy the ol’ Karen!
She is a self-righteous, money hungry commie bitch who spends most of her time drunk. But it runs in the family, her father was on the FBI watch list when he was running Baltimore for being a commie sympathizer. FACT: It’s in the old Baltimore sun newspaper.
I can’t stand her! God forgive me!