House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of President Donald
Trump’s State of the Union speech last night and told reporters that tearing up the
address was “the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.”
Before his address, Trump walked to the rostrum and handed a
copy of his speech to Pelosi. But he turned away from her as she tried to
extend her hand for a handshake.
Today Pelosi privately told Democrats that President
Trump’s State of the Union address was a “pack of lies” and she felt “very
liberated” ripping up the pages of his speech on national television.
“He disrespected the chamber he was in ... to use it as a
backdrop for a reality show ... to give a speech that had no connection with
reality,” she said.
Trump turned his prime-time speech into something of a
reality show. He gave out a scholarship to a young black student, he reunited
an Afghanistan-based military sergeant with his wife and two small children,
and he awarded conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. (Limbaugh is a whole other story.)
Trump also used his address to take credit for the nation’s
economic success, criticize Democrats on immigration policies and claim that he
will protect Americans with preexisting health conditions — a vow at direct
odds with his effort to gut the Affordable Care Act, which includes the
guarantee that patients can’t be denied that coverage.
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