President Donald Trump celebrated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement she would not run for reelection Thursday during a White House event.
Pelosi announced her retirement from Congress via a video posted on social media Thursday, thanking residents of San Francisco for their support since she first ran in a special election for a House seat in 1987. Trump made the comments while answering questions from reporters at the Oval Office event to announce lower prices for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs that was interrupted by the collapse of a pharmacy executive.
“I think she did the country a great service by retiring,” Trump said after a reporter asked him about Pelosi’s retirement. “I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I think she was an evil woman who did a poor job and cost the country a lot in damages and reputation. I thought she was terrible. Thank you very much.”
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Trump had earlier commented on Pelosi’s retirement in a text message to Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.
“The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America. She was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country,” Trump told Doocy, who read the text Thursday on “America’s Newsroom.” “She was rapidly losing control of her party and it was never coming back. I’m very honored she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. Nancy Pelosi is a highly overrated politician.”
Trump and Pelosi had a contentious relationship since he was first elected in 2016. During the 2020 State of the Union, she tore up a copy of his speech after he finished addressing Congress.
Pelosi also spearheaded two impeachments against Trump, the first tied into his efforts to have Ukraine investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden, while the second was over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol building.
During a CNN interview that aired Monday, Pelosi called Trump “a vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”
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