Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reportedly plans to attend Tuesday’s joint session of Congress for President Trump’s address and has found herself giving advice to the struggling Democrat party while praising herself. The Washington Post reports, Pelosi appeared to proudly recall her childish behavior during President Trump’s 2020 address during which she tore up the parchment after she declared that “every page was a lie.”
This time around, Pelosi is urging Democrats not to “turn themselves into part of the story,” however, unless they have a “moment” like she says she did.
“Any demonstration of disagreement, whether it’s visual or whatever, just let him stew in his own juice. Don’t be any grist for the mill to say this was inappropriate,” Pelosi said Thursday morning, according to The Post.
Highlighting the struggle within the Democrat party to unify, Pelosi urged members to “unify around a rebuttal to his controversial actions.” The issue Pelosi said to focus on is Medicaid, saying that she will listen intently to what the president has to say about it. Pelosi already set up the Democrats’ talking points for them, accusing Trump of speaking about “taking medical care away from more children, middle-income seniors who need long-term health care, and people with disabilities” in the speech he has not yet made.
Pelosi reportedly said, according to The Post, “‘You got a mountain of rocks’…metaphorically referring to all the potential issues in an election. ‘What are the three or four? You’re going right for the jugular.’”
More important than hearing what Trump has to say about Medicaid, however, is paying attention to how Republicans “react to it,” she added.
“The most important thing in all of this is to prioritize,” Pelosi said, asserting that she is focused on the midterms. “Again, members will say I want this, I want that. Yeah, that’s interesting, talk about that at home.”
Pelosi repeated again her urgency for Democrats not to make a scene, “Unless you have something that is a moment,” she said, praising herself for such a momentous opportunity when she made her move standing behind the president years ago.“That’s what a moment was, when I tore up the speech.”