Trump v Pelosi: how a 'stable genius' president met his match
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Trump v Pelosi: how a 'stable genius' president met his match
Ed Pilkington in New York, The Guardian 55 minutes ago
It has been almost four years since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign from the gilded escalator of Trump Tower. In that time he has come to be feared by Democrats and Republicans alike for his personal attacks that always seem to supremely rile his opponents.
Now he has finally met his match.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, has spent the past 48 hours doing to Trump what he has done to so many others. She lifted up his skin, got under it, and began scratching furiously.
Asked at her weekly news conference on Thursday whether she was concerned about the president’s well-being, she replied : “I am,” adding she was also concerned about “the well-being of the United States of America”.
And then she delivered the coup de grace : “I wish that his family or his administration or staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. Maybe he wants to take a leave of absence.”
Coming on top of the previous day’s goading, in which Trump angrily flounced out of a White House meeting with her after Pelosi had accused him of being “engaged in a coverup” , the House speaker’s call for an intervention appeared to hit its mark.
Related: Nancy Pelosi says White House is 'crying out for impeachment'
Trump responded on Thursday by going on what can only be described as a Pelosi rant, at a White House event for farmers and ranchers. He began by showing the nation that he was in full possession of his faculties, contrary to the House speaker’s insinuation, by proclaiming: “I am an extremely stable genius.”
Then he proceeded to counter Pelosi’s claim that he had “flipped out” and had a “tempter tantrum” at Wednesday’s aborted meeting by insisting he had been calm. “I was so calm. I was extremely calm.”
Lest there was any remaining doubt that he was entirely calm in the face of Pelosi’s provocations, he paraded in front of the cameras a long line of White House staffers including his counselor Kellyanne Conway, strategic communications chief Mercedes Schlapp, press secretary Sarah Sanders and others and invited them to provide eye-witness accounts of his calmness.
Conway: “Very calm … you were very calm.”
Sanders: “Very calm.”
Schlapp: “You were very calm.”
“I couldn’t have been more calm,” Trump concluded. In the course of the function Trump had uttered the word “calm” in a preternaturally calm voice to America’s bemused farmers and ranchers no fewer than nine times.
Until this point in their fractious relationship, the US president has remained, by his standards, relatively respectful of Pelosi, sparing her the “Lyin’ Ted” and “Crooked Hillary” jibes he has inflicted on hundreds of his perceived adversaries. But as a further indication of the effectiveness of the Pelosi taunt, he let rip on her on Thursday.
“She’s a mess … she’s disintegrating,” he said. “I’ve been watching her for a long time. She’s not the same person. She’s lost it.”
Then he called her “Crazy Nancy” before immediately regretting it. “I don’t want to say ‘Crazy Nancy’ because if I say that you’re going to say it’s a copy of ‘Crazy Bernie’ and that’s no good.”
These past four years America and the world has got used to Trump forcibly having the last word. Not any more.
By end of play Thursday, Pelosi had logged on to Twitter – the social media platform of which Trump was supposed to be “master” – and scratched her nails under his skin one more time. “When the ‘extremely stable genius’ starts acting more presidential, I’ll be happy to work with him on infrastructure, trade and other issues,” she wrote.
Now what, Mr President?
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Trump responded on Thursday by going on what can only be described as a Pelosi rant, at a White House event for farmers and ranchers. He began by showing the nation that he was in full possession of his faculties, contrary to the House speaker’s insinuation, by proclaiming: “I am an extremely stable genius.”
Then he proceeded to counter Pelosi’s claim that he had “flipped out” and had a “tempter tantrum” at Wednesday’s aborted meeting by insisting he had been calm. “I was so calm. I was extremely calm.”
Lest there was any remaining doubt that he was entirely calm in the face of Pelosi’s provocations, he paraded in front of the cameras a long line of White House staffers including his counselor Kellyanne Conway, strategic communications chief Mercedes Schlapp, press secretary Sarah Sanders and others and invited them to provide eye-witness accounts of his calmness.
Conway: “Very calm … you were very calm.”
Sanders: “Very calm.”
Schlapp: “You were very calm.”
“I couldn’t have been more calm,” Trump concluded. In the course of the function Trump had uttered the word “calm” in a preternaturally calm voice to America’s bemused farmers and ranchers no fewer than nine times.
These past four years America and the world has got used to Trump forcibly having the last word. Not any more.
By end of play Thursday, Pelosi had logged on to Twitter – the social media platform of which Trump was supposed to be “master” – and scratched her nails under his skin one more time. “When the ‘extremely stable genius’ starts acting more presidential, I’ll be happy to work with him on infrastructure, trade and other issues,” she wrote.
Now what, Mr President?
at this point pelosi is nothing more than a flea... LOL
she is irrelevant.
Apparently Trump does not share your belief based on his rants and tweets.
She pretty much hands the turd his balls on a daily basis.
Except that Trump can't do much of anything (but bitch and moan) while she is around. Oh, and she beat the shit out of him in 2018.
Beat the shit out of him?
LOL!
You do realize that the GOP lost fewer seats than Obama or Clinton did, right?
Don't remember Dems crowing about that!
I do Remember Republicans crowing about it though, constantly, for the last several years and even after severe losses. Only a completely daft Republican sycophant would dismiss and ignore the major Democrat wins in 2018 and the irrefutable rejection of the Republican party when Americans flipped seven governorships, six state legislative chambers, and more than 300 state House and Senate seats to Democrat.
No landslide, as claimed. Still lost fewer seats in Congress than last two Dem Presidents, and actually gained seats in Senate.
I don't ignore it, I just know it is a not a landslide in any historical context.
It was indeed a landslide
In your never ending quest to reject reality, that has to be one of your finest efforts.
Not only did the Democrats take the Majority in the House, the re-elected Pelosi the Speaker of the House. Those facts have kicked the shit out of Trump and he's been spinning out of control ever since.
I remember what happened to Gingrich's control of the party after Republicans LOST seats in the 1998 mid-term election even as impeachment proceedings were begun against Clinton.
It was the first time in 132 years that an opposition party lost seats in a mid-term election of a president's second term. Quite an accomplishment.
And????
Very, very good--you read some history.
Kind of obvious you don't
Well, in defense of Tex I do have to point out that she did once (and only once as far as I've been able to ascertain) put up a historical fact (albeit entirely tangential to what was being discussed so I can't rule out that it was an accident). She seemed to know that the first settlers in the Americas came from Asia -- although I don't know if she knew how they got here. It's entirely possible she thought they accompanied Jesus when he came here and buried those golden saucers--or were they flying saucers?
[Note to Tex: you're welcome]
But didn't you call those incidents an ass kicking? An ass kicking is an ass kicking, not sure why you are trying to draw lines. Trump and the GOP got fucked up in 2018, pure and simple. The GOP gained all of like 2 seats in the senate (when they had very few up for contention to begin with, not exactly stellar) and lost like 40 seats in the house. Dip shit was constantly talking about how the election was about him, and he got his own shit fed to him with a spoon.
No she isn't irrelevant but every one of your whackjob pronouncements and 'prophecies' are.
Then why did Trump shut down bipartisan talks because of Pelosi having a caucus meeting?
As is that comment
Pelosi only said what she said because the loons on the left told her to.
The far left loon base of the democratic party ran on impeaching Trump....and no other reason. If Trump does not get impeached (he won't), at least those loons can say they tried, and keep their loon base happy.
Trump should be thankful I haven't been elected to congress, if I were he would be on the verge of suicide because I would shit talk him to no end. Honestly, he is a pretty fucking weak ass shit talker and an easy target. I wouldn't feel good about it, or proud rather, because beating up on a mentally retarded piece of roadkill isn't exactly hard to do. Hmmm, maybe I should run for congress, if for no other reason than to try to make Trump kill himself....
Hmmmmm...maybe this comment should be taken down for death wishing. I saw a moderator do that with another comment about a political figure yesterday. Your comment in no way addressed mine, but, alas....
As far as your rant goes, I think YOU are the furthest worry of President Trump, even if you were in Congress. A keyboard warrior talking shit about someone they hate for no other reason other than he is not Hillary is not exactly someone ANYONE should be concerned about.
As a matter of fact, you are probably being heartily laughed at by pretty much everyone who read your comment. Thanks for the comedic relief.
Not a death wish and me wishing there were no more birthdays for the turd isn't either. I'm not laughing at thrawn.
You keep wishing.
Just like those who keep wishing Hillary would have won.
Just like those wishing the Great Mueller Report would have been enough to impeach Trump.
Thanks for your permission sweetie
Anytime you need it, sweetie!
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And you are certainly (not probably) wrong there.
By 3 million votes, in fact.
Meh, whatever. I get comments taken down and am suspended all the time, when it comes to that I am like Trump and the sanctity of marriage. I just don't much care.
Lol please. As thin skinned as he is he would spend every waking hour fuming over me. I would publicly disrespect the shit out of him, and you know he wouldn't be able to let that go. Like I said, he is the easiest target of all time, it would be like hunting that goat from the original Jurassic Park.
Like yourself.
PLEASE give me the chance to talk to that fuck head face to face and air it nationally. And yes, I do hate Trump, that has never been a secret. I quite literally hate damn near everything about him. He is a shit stain of a human being with not a single redeeming quality. I did not like Bush in the slightest, but I at least could say he seemed like a good father. Can't even say that about Trump because he basically ignores one of his daughter's existence and has certainly molested the other (he has said publicly that he wants to fuck her).
You could not be more wrong. I don't like Hillary and never have, she just has an IQ higher than the freezing point of water.
Nope. Never said I was, clearly said IF. Although you are actually tempting me to join Twitter if only to shit talk fat ass, see if I can get an actual reaction out of him. That would be mildly amusing if it happened.
Oh well.
I'll be here all weekend!
What did she win? Is she your President? Is she ANYONE'S President?
What's that?
The answers are no?
Shocker!
To most liberals, a sense of humor is non existent. I can see why you are not laughing.
So she didn't win. You already know that.
Wow...that was a whole lotta "I hate Trump because he is not Hillary". You could have just typed that and it would have meant the same thing. You can say as much as you want you don't like her, but you can't deny you are pissed Trump is President and she isn't.
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I have it figured out now. Some folks think that Hillary was running for something other than President, that HAS to be it, because I can't believe THAT many folks don't know she lost the election.
Maybe Dems had some other thingy going on while we elected a President.
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Whatever that was, she lost it too. She is now nothing more than an abuela that thinks she is still relevant.
One day we will see in history books how a long defunct ideology (liberalism) tried to overthrow a duly elected President simply because his name was not Hillary.
If Pelosi is too much for Trump I would have already made him kill himself.
Trump. Blows through money, lies a lot, thinks he's smart and needs adoration.
Pelosi. Understands the rules, is familiar with how things work and knows more about the Trump than the Trump could ever imagine.
The only way the Trump can win is if every standard of our democratic republic is torn asunder by the many ( Putin puppet loons ) that walk among us.
Example: Nationwide, this Memorial Day Weekend, there are several Ku Klux and Nationalist rallies taking place. This is not an accident. And this is most definitely not a response to America's first black president. This is what it is.
IOW, the perfect candidate for people who enjoy being suckered.
Pelosi sure can trigger Trump....
She hands the turd his balls on a daily basis
He's half-cocked* at all times anyway.
* and that can be taken in any of its connotations.
For all the left accuses Trump of being, Pelosi is a hypocrite of a greater magnitude than the president.
No accusations 'doc', truth.
Of course she is.
But you aren't allowed to criticize the left's darling leader.
Yeah, Pelosi cracked me up the other day when she made a statement about how Godly the Dems were and how un Godly the Republicans were. If that is not hypocritical, I don't know what is...
Can you link that statement? I can't seem to find anything other than her praying for this clearly incapacitated incompetent narcissist President.
Of course not because she said nothing of the kind
Nope she is no hypocrite despite your hissy fits to the contrary
R-I-g-h-t, and AOC is a damn GEENYUS, TOO!
Your ability to ignore what's happening in the real world is truly astonishing. To suggest that Nancy Pelosi is not now and hasn't always been viciously attacked by the rightwing is gobsmackiingly absurd. Despite that, she stays calms and carries on while your
throws a tanrtrum about every five minutes
R-I-G-H-T.
You may buy that nonsense, but I simply refuse to. Sell it to someone else.
Thanks.
Don't know about being a genius but she's obviously smarter than any republican in government. Here's how she slapped down and shut down a republican congressman's moronic attempt to who label the Green New Deal "elitist":
Here's some additional idiocies from that particular republican dummy:
Sean Duffy’s an Embarrassment to Wisconsin’s 7th District
And Duffy's not the biggest moron by far that republicans have to offer.
You are W-R-O-N-G as usual
However you do try and sell a lot of nonsense all that time
Oh, please do show us where that pile of BS (and perfect example of the rightwing's Goebbels' gambit) comes from.
One other thing about AOC that is nearly non-existent in the republican ranks: decency. She was at a town hall along with a former republican congressman (Inglis was the name, I think) and someone in the audience called him a moron and she slapped that person down:
I very seriously doubt we'd find any republican office holder doing something like that. But if anyone has an example of it I'd be happy to be shown wrong.
Tell us something we didn't already know. You constantly refuse to accept facts when they're put in front of you multiple times.
Nothing more godly than loving the fetus but hating the child, especially if it isn't the right shade of white.
She was probably pointing at the person that yelled moron...
You didn't finish the statement, so let me do it for you...
"Because of the liberal loon left policies of the last 60 years".
There...glad I can help.
Bulls shit. Don't you ever pay attention to anything but fox news and the rest of your propaganda machine
That's like telling them not to breathe.
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Here’s the list of accomplishments by the Pelosi led communist Democrats since retaking the House
Huh, I thought that was Trump's list of accomplishments.
Me too!
So you think that the 151 bills passed by the House as of yesterday are a figment of our imagination.
Are the one's that Trump signed into law imaginary too?
Cite the bills passed by the House and Senate and signed by Trump since the Dems took over in January
Go look them up on congress.gov LFOD. They are all documented there and easily searchable by House and status.
Prepare to have your world view shattered...
Better yet, look at the bills passed by congress, sent to the senate------where McConnell lets them rot.
Where'd you go LFOD? Still reading through all of the bills that the House has passed this session?
Here you go. I rest my case. NOTHING the Dems campaigned on has been signed into law