‘An Evil Woman’: President Trump Celebrates ‘Tremendous Liability’ Nancy Pelosi’s Retirement

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