What I’m truly sad about is I pray for the president all the time and I tell him that
I pray for his safety and that of his family.
I think now that we have to pray for his health because this was a very serious meltdown on
the part of the president.
I had expressed my appreciation for what our troops have done in Syria and by all accounts
from the generals, they have just really done the job very well, that he’s now pulling
out.
The explanation of that is we asked for all members of the House to hear, and that was
supposed to be tomorrow but now—but then they somehow they postponed it until today.
My concern that I expressed to the president is that Russia has for a long time always
wanted to have a foothold in the Middle East and now he has enabled that to happen.
And I have concerns about all roads leading to Putin, whether it’s a foothold in the
Middle East, whether it’s placing in doubt any military assistance to Ukraine which is
to the benefit of Putin, whether it’s placing in doubt our commitment to NATO, Article 5,
which again all roads lead to Putin.
The list goes on and on.
That seemed to have angered the president.
We’ve now seen over and over the extent to which Nancy Pelosi is almost uniquely able
to get under Trump’s skin.
And she did it again today, coming out in a press conference after a meeting with the
president that went expectedly south and saying that she’s concerned for Trump’s health.
And the reason that this was such an adept swipe is that it’s Trumpian by nature; she’s
figured out how to use his style of attacks right back against him.
We see these types of attacks by Trump all the time, wherein he’ll take a jab but present
it as concern or worry or just something that “many people are saying.”
And it’s completely petty and juvenile and, well… yeah it’s pretty on brand for Trump.
But it drives him nuts when Pelosi does it because he doesn’t know how to respond to
his own strategy.
The guy is a one-trick pony, which is why it was equal parts predictable and pathetic
when Trump took to Twitter right after this statement by Pelosi and wrote, “Nancy Pelosi
needs help fast!
There is either something wrong with her ‘upstairs,’ or she just plain doesn’t like our great
Country.
She had a total meltdown in the White House today.
It was very sad to watch.
Pray for her, she is a very sick person!”
There’s no better evidence that Nancy Pelosi knows exactly how to deal with Trump than
the fact that all he could do was take her swipe and repeat it.
He didn’t even try to change any of the words, but instead just said the EXACT same
thing back to her.
And bear in mind, this is strikingly similar to the last time Trump was pressed by a powerful
woman that he didn’t know how to deal with— Well that’s because he’d rather have a
puppet as president of the United States— No puppet.
No puppet.
It’s pretty clear you wont admit— You’re the puppet.
No better comeback to “you’re a puppet” than “no you’re the puppet.”
But it actually managed to get worse for Trump from there.
He also took to Twitter to try and throw the idea of his being unhinged back at her.
He tweeted a photo of her standing up to him with the caption “Nervous Nancy's unhinged
meltdown!”
Now let’s just skip by the fact that it’s gonna be a REALLY hard sell to call someone
ELSE unhinged if you’re Donald Trump.
Half of his presidency has been spent tweeting angry, all caps locked responses to Fox News
reports.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m just saying betting odds PROBABLY don’t
favor Trump if we had to guess which person was truly “unhinged” in that meeting.
But the photo itself backfired spectacularly on Trump, in that it shows Nancy Pelosi is
standing up to him – literally – while the president looks small and his generals
look ashamed.
How he or anyone on his staff could possibly think that this makes her look bad is beyond
me.
I mean, this photo is so perfect for Nancy Pelosi that she could’ve made this into
her banner photo on Twitter.
And, well… that’s exactly what she did.
Which I’m certain only incensed the president even more.
And look, despite the theatrics here, the honest truth is that Trump very much doesn’t
seem in control.
And he’s doubled down on his decision to continue to try and conspire with foreign
nations to interfere in our election, having now reached out to Ukraine, China, the UK,
Australia, and Italy.
But despite the egregious illegality of these acts, he’s not only failed to show any type
of remorse for breaking the law, but actually doubled down, using it to attack Democrats
and Adam Schiff and Joe and Hunter Biden and the Deep State and the Intelligence Community
Inspector General who he appointed and the whistleblower and even his own Secretary of
Energy Rick Perry.
The list goes on and on, and that’s DUE to the fact that no matter how hard he tries,
none of these baseless attacks are sticking.
The fact is that Trump knows that he finally got caught in the act, and yet that his response
is to be even MORE lawless is just further proof that he’s not fit to hold office.