When asked why she ripped up Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech after he had finished speaking before the House chamber last night, Nancy Pelosi told reporters, “Because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on why she ripped up President Trump’s speech: “Because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.” pic.twitter.com/nYTjAZAwGo
— Jason Donner (@jason_donner) February 5, 2020
A little while later, the Speaker released a statement further explaining her motivations. It read, in part: “The manifesto of mistruths presented in page after page of the address tonight should be a call to action for everyone who expects truth from the President and policies worthy of his office and the American people.”
Meanwhile, at the White House, they had a different take on things:
Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:
One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.
The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.
The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.
A service member's reunion with his family.
That's her legacy.
— The White House 45 Archived (@WhiteHouse45) February 5, 2020
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Related: Nancy Pelosi’s “f*ck you” clap to Donald Trump has been immortalized in memes for posterity
Jared MacBride
Thanks for playing right into his hands, Pelosi. Little temper tantrums like this shift voters to the other side.
Chrisk
Sorry sweets. If that’s all it takes to drive you over to trump you were never on the fence to begin with.
jayceecook
I agree. While her actions would *never* make me vote Trump it does look childish. A lot of people on his side (who are often childish themselves) will just use things like this to rally the troops to get him reelected. I guarantee this will end up in a republican election ad later this year if not within the month. Republicans want people to believe that all Dems are childish, uncaring, and nasty bullies trying to take their “religious freedom” and guns away.
Pelosi is honestly bad for the party. I know the Dems love her but she needs to go. They need fresh blood. But they won’t because of stunts like this. It gives them headlines.
truthseeker
True. Obviously the very partisan ones won’t switch sides but Independents will.
Just look at the CBS poll done after the speech and see over 80% of Independents approved of and supported the speech.
djhavyk
Yeah, maybe it IS a little childish but there really is no “good” way to handle any of this. If she does nothing, then she’s criticized as either agreeing with all the lies he said or being complacent. Honestly, doing this brought more awareness to everything going on and getting people to talk about it because of salacious news coverage her actions incite. In a way, she’s (slowly) learning to beat him at his own game by becoming the news cycles.
NateOcean
This seemed beneath Pelosi.
A classless act, targeteing a classless President.
ShiningSex
Only idiots would vote for Trump. Did you not see that he refused to shake her hand in the beginning???? Why should she be civil to a moron who creates chaos?
Kangol2
@JaredMacBride, you keep telling yourself that! Meanwhile, Don the Con Drumpf’s treasonous @ss keeps tearing up the US Constitution, and you eat it up like an ice cream sundae!
MISTERJETT
she did exactly what you’re supposed to do with garbage.
justsimple
This will just encourage more votes for Trump, her behavior is not acceptable she wants to think she is better than him but the fact is she’s just as low as his tactics and it just proves there’s no difference between bad behavior on any of the sides… At the end of the day when Trump wins she is primarily the blame
Chrisk
Imagine how it feels to be Nancy right now. She just led the impeachment of the most corrupt president in history because she had to, knowing it was going to come to nothing. She knows that she’s going to be slandered from sea to shining sea as soon as the similarly corrupt Senate acquits him without letting witnesses testify. And now that corrupt president disrespects her after she introduces him and spends and hour gloating in political capacity he should not have, and all that’s going to be covered is how rude it was for her to rip up his speech.
Smith David
So it’s acceptable that he continues to rip the country apart? Something is coming to this country that will either unit us again, or permanently destroy our democracy.
ShiningSex
No it won’t. Only morons vote for Trump. Racist morons.
jayceecook
Why is Queerty posting memes from pro Trump people? Can you not afford fact checkers? Or simply read Insta descriptions?
justsimple
It’s not about people switching to the other side, her comments will make more Republicans go to the polls… It’s all about voting I don’t for see a lot of Democrats leaving the party to go for Trump but her behavior gives Republicans a reason to go out in force and her actions have consequences
ShiningSex
WRONG!!!! His people are the main ones who vote to begin with. That’s the issue with democrats and independents. They DON’T vote! It won’t make a difference. We need make THE DIFFERENCE BY VOTING. She only did that because 1. He is full of shit 2. He refused to shake her hand there
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
What everyone seems to BE IGNORING is that Pelosi offering her hand to the Orange Puppet to shake which EVERY President and Speaker has done since this country’s inception and HE REFUSED TO SHAKE HER HAND.
Please stop the attacks on her. At least she attempts some civility and decorum which is lost on a petulant spiteful noxious manchild…
Tempus
It’s ironic to me that plenty of Trump supporters will point out Pelosi’s actions as childish and yet will turn a blind eye to the president’s equally childish actions. I’m not claiming her actions weren’t childish nor am I saying I support them wholeheartedly…but I do enjoy seeing it. At least her actions are honest and transparent.
Kieran
And today Americans will tear up the bullschiff impeachment.
ShiningSex
The idiot republicans will be doing the most anti-American act ever. Allowing a crook to get away with his continuing lies and corruption. Most of them said Trump learned his lesson. Really? How does a moron learn his lesson when he feels he did nothing wrong?
Kangol2
LOL, Kieran. I love that a majority of Senators, including Repugs, stated that what Don the Con Drumpf did was WRONG. He violated the law for his own gain. He’s a lying Dumpster fire and that was on full display last night. The GAO found his actions illegal. And a BIPARTISAN group of House members voted to impeach him, and a BIPARTISAN group voted to convict him. Unfortunately, Moscow Mitch’s coverup scheme with Putin’s puppet was already set. He’s lucky Pelosi didn’t tear him a new piehole!
j41005
Pelosi is an immature POS. Never in our history has their been such a childish act. Regardless of her hatred for him, she should have shown respect for the office he holds.
She hates everything and everyone who stands for our nation. Her district in California is one of the biggest shitholes in our nation and she wants to turn all of America into the same.
ShiningSex
Did you just say stupidly “never in the history has there” been such a childish act???? First off I guess you don’t know who Trump is. The most childish person ever!!! Second, learn how to spell moron. It’s “There” not “Their”. Sit down queen.
Patrick
You sound like a homophobic GOP troll.
ShiningSex
I loved that she did that. Trump wouldn’t shake her hand before, so why are people so upset about what she did? People should be upset that a crook got away with his continuing lies, corruption, and becoming our first dictator.
winemaker
Why should Trump shake this rude and disrespectful bitch’s hand? If i was trump, I’d have spit in her face or failing that, in my hand before shaking her hand. But Trump has more class than to stoop to pelosi’s immature and childish and rude behavior. Really who shakes the hand of someone whose been trying to screw them over for the last 3 years? Time long over for juvenile games and nonsense that gets us nowhere
C_Alan
The ripping seemed too ceremonial and proper for me. I wanted her to rip each sheet at least twice.
Charlie in Charge
All of this pearl-clutching. “Oh now now people will vote for Trump!” Come to your senses, we have tried the high road and it hasn’t worked. No one’s mind is going to be made up about Trump, a man who brags about grabbing women’s genitals against their will because Pelosi was “rude.”
Hussain-TheCanadian
I think what she did was pretty tame and classy; I would of thrown the torn up pieces of paper in his face, then looked him in the eyes while slowly saying to him “suck my dck tiny hands”.
MISTERJETT
she did exactly what you’re supposed to do with garbage. she should have thrown the pieces in his gruesome face.
Prax07
Look, I LOVE Nancy, just like any Sane person she’s HAD IT with that turd and his constant lies and fakery. He’s Lucky all he got was his shitty speach ripped up.
winemaker
‘nasty’ nancy ‘pigliosi’ an immature childish spoiled POS. I live in San Francisco, her congressional district and had the displeasure of meeting the ‘queen of mean’ at one of the pride festivals several years ago with her equally and disgustingly obnoxious weasel nephew gavin ‘giveaway the store for free ‘ newsom. These two rude pompous ‘better than everyone else’ disgusting ass wipes, were rude and treated those around them like lackeys. Hopefully the American people saw just what immature disrespectful thugs these two are along with all her minions. She might not like Trump and disagree with him, but she owes him and the American people respect especially during the State of the Union. She also owes the American people an apology on national TV for her rude insulting and disrespectful behavior. She along with ‘fart’ faced dianne feinstein along with ‘giveaway the store for free’ newsom are responsible for the destruction of the jewel of California that’s now an overpriced unaffordable bum infested, crime ridden CRAP HOLE that recently got the appropriate moniker the ‘doo doo’ capital of the USA and the west coasts version of the third world. I won’t explain the meaning as it’s pretty obvious. And the kicker, nephew newsom ‘s socialist agenda is destroying California.. if this doesn’t rile people up, they’ve been asleep at the switch! The outrageous thing though, she lives in an 11′ high concrete walled 8 million dollar mansion in Napa Valley, far away from the all the filth, stench, homeless encampments, crime, and toilet like streets she and her thugs foisted on San Francisco. In the thirty two years she’s been in congress she’s done ZILCH for California and even less for America if that can be said. and is worth over 200 million dollars. Somehow her salary of $175.000,00 per year over this period, for basically doing nothing and sitting on her fat wrinkled ass has gotten her obscenely wealthy. Hopefully her immature temper tantrums and disgraceful and disrespectful antics displayed on national television against the American people for who she took an oath to protect and serve along with the rest of her minions will be her downfall and end.. Most of America, including a lot of gay people, (who she panders to regularly for votes) can’t stand her, the sight of her and her voice. FYI: There’re so many people here sick and tired of all the BS these liberals are doing and can’t stand this obnoxious waste of air, DNA and anti American POS and can’t wait ’till this ‘non doer’ for the American people is gone for good!,
Aires the Ram
@winemaker: What you said! Thank you for being the voice of truth & reason here. I could not have said it better than you. Thank You for posting. But, get ready, the libtards will blast you for this. They can’t stand the truth, especially when it’s thrown in their face.
GayEGO
The fact checking proves Trump was lying as usual and I knew the facts so I knew he was lying. As a crooked, cheating businessman with his fake Trump University to which he paid $25 million to the plaintiffs of their lawsuit, his illegal, unregistered Trump Foundation which he pilfered money for himself, intentionally bankrupted businesses e.g. New Jersey casinos, Florida Senior real estate which he ran away with his investors money, Trump will continue cheating as the POTUS. What a disgusting buffoon he is.
dustychiffon
Only physically ugly guys think Polis crossed a line. I mean, I’m sorry but don’t give me that crap. I’m talking about an event that just awarded Rush Limbaugh of all people the medal of freedom. Just stop.
GayEGO
I do not blame Nancy, Trumps lies were disgusting and the expressions on the faces and head shakings from left to right support why she needed to rip Trump’s speech lies apart, including frowns from the generals.
Parkside
STFU! So many idiotic BS spewed by trolls above. Go away. Oh, and standing ovation to Nancy Pelosi for not taking it lying down. The republican senators, minus Romney, might be willing to sacrifice their integrity and patriotism to save their neck during the next election, but not the real patriots. If you trolls want to now preach civility to ‘snowflakes,’ you are too damn late.