At the beginning of tonight's SOTU, Trump appeared to ignore the outstretched hand of Nancy Pelosi. At the end, she tore up the president's prepared remarks.
President Donald Trump appeared to ignore House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s outstretched hand at the top of his annual address. At the end of the speech, Pelosi tore up her copy of his prepared remarks.It was unclear whether Trump intentionally rebuffed the most powerful woman in American politics or whether he simply did not see her hand. But after he finished speaking, the president left the dais without shaking the hand of the speaker, who then dramatically dispensed with the papers before her.
When asked why she destroyed her copy of the speech, Pelosi said that “it was the courteous thing to do.“The White House responded with a terse shortly after, characterizing Pelosi‘s gesture as disrespectful to the guests honored in Trump‘s address.The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.That's her legacy.The extraordinary exchanges had extra significance as Trump delivered his address in the chamber where he was impeached — the third such president in U.S. history to be marred with that distinction.
Though Pelosi has been a major force in Trump’s impeachment, she has adamantly denied personal hostility toward the president. In a passionateto a reporter who asked whether she hated Trump, Pelosi said in December that she didn’t hate anyone and warned the reporter not to “mess with me with a word like that.”
Tuesday night’s encounter was not the first time Trump denied a handshake in a moment that ended up going viral. In March 2017, the president appeared to
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