The House minority leader told Democrats that Trump’s push for the border wall is ‘a manhood thing’
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Rachael Bade and Sarah Ferris on politico.com on December 11,2018.
Nancy Pelosi was on fire.
Trump “must have said the word ‘wall’ 30 times,” the House minority leader said, according to multiple sources in the room.
“I was trying to be the mom,” she added, but “it goes to show you: you get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.”
And then, Pelosi went for the most sensitive part of Trump’s ego.
“It’s like a manhood thing with him – as if manhood can be associated with him,” she deadpanned. “This wall thing”.
Congressional Democrats are feeling smug – and actually a little excited – for the looming shutdown fight with the president after Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting.
The president may have opened up the entire negotiation session to the public to throw Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer off their game. But in the end, Democrats feel confident that their leaders came out ahead.
Trump, Democrats argue, fell into a trap the minute he took ownership of what Pelosi has dubbed “the Trump shutdown”.
Absent a bipartisan agreement on Trump’s border wall, about a quarter of the government will run out of money on December 21.
