Pelosi is destroying Trump so badly on the shutdown that reporters feel sorry for him
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Nancy Pelosi has been owning Donald Trump ever since that fateful Oval Office meeting when Trump spontaneously invited reporters in to record as Pelosi secured her speakership while Trump laid his grave by declaring the pride he would take in shutting down thPelosi is destroying Trump so badly on the shutdown that reporters feel sorry for him
Nancy Pelosi has been owning Donald Trump ever since that fateful Oval Office meeting when Trump spontaneously invited reporters in to record as Pelosi secured her speakership while Trump laid his grave by declaring the pride he would take in shutting down the government. Since then, Pelosi has peppered Trump with little insults, such as saying his wall-funding ultimatum was «like a manhood thing for him» and then mocking his retreat on the concrete barrier by suggesting he wanted «a beaded curtain or something.» Pelosi's latest piece of brilliance was to deprive Trump of the one thing he craves above all else: an audience. To the surprise of many in her caucus, she showed up for a meeting with her colleagues Wednesday morning with a letter she had just sent disinviting Trump from delivering the State of the Union speech later this month unless the government was reopened this week. The letter cited the extraordinary «security concerns» of gathering pretty close to the entire U.S. government under one roof at a time when the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security haven't been funded for 26 days. But she's got more where that came from. On Thursday, she added another rationale: fairness. «Let's pay the employees,» Pelosi told reporters. «Maybe [Trump] thinks it is okay not to pay people who do work. I don't. My caucus doesn't either.» Put Democrats down for the risky proposition that federal employees shouldn't be treated like indentured servants subject to the whims of a madman lording over them. Look, Trump and his aides are frankly proving just how truly pathetic they are, now that they've gotten their first whiff of political pushback from Congress. They're tanking in the polls like an unpowered submarine, and every day Pelosi throws a few more sandbags their way. And while congressional Republicans flop around like netted fish, the Democratic caucus is a vision of discipline. Read more