WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked President Donald Trump in the eye and applauded him, pointing her hands at him even as she…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked President Donald Trump in the eye and applauded him, pointing her hands at him even as she made them clap. As soon as he looked away, she did, too — and smirked.
That set the distinctly Pelosi-esque tone of respecting the office of the president, if not the man who currently occupies it, an approach she’d openly take throughout Trump’s nationally broadcast speech to a joint session of Congress.
It was his first under divided government, with the white-clad Pelosi the backdrop of every word he uttered. And it came after she forced him to agree Jan. 25 to reopen the government with zero dollars for his border wall. Throughout the address, she threw her special brand of shade at Trump — an eye roll here, a chuckle there — even as she raised a hand to shush outbursts of groaning among the Democrats who flipped the House from Republican control.
At one point, when Trump saluted the record number of women serving in Congress, Pelosi stood and gestured to the sea of new lawmakers dressed in white on the Democratic side of the aisle.
