Pelosi describes Trump's 'very serious meltdown' during White House meeting on Syria by writerknowles
“What’s really sad about it is that I pray for the president all the time and I tell him that, I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now we have to pray for his health, because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.
House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Trump “was insulting, particularly to the speaker.” Trump seems to have been caught off guard by the reaction to his decision, taken without consulting his cabinet or staff after a Oct. 6 phone call with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. The next day he threatened to “obliterate” the Turkish economy with sanctions if Erdogan’s forces provoked bloodshed in Syria. And on Wednesday the White House leaked an Oct.
"While Democratic leadership chose to storm out and get in front of the cameras to whine, everyone else in the meeting chose to stay in the room and work on behalf of this country,” Grisham said.
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