‘That’s an Italian Grandma Move’: Daughter of Pelosi Defends Her Mother Ripping up State of the Union Address

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) daughter, Christine Pelosi, is defending her mother’s decision to rip up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address amid an ongoing, public feud between the two leaders.

In an interview on Fox News on Thursday, Pelosi’s daughter Christine Pelosi called the gesture of ripping up Trump’s State of the Union address “an Italian grandma move.”

“I think 👤Nancy Pelosi is a wonderful person, I know she prays daily, including for the president, including for the country as we talked before. And in watching her reaction to that speech, I thought to myself, ‘That’s an Italian grandma move.'”

Watch the interview below:

Christine Pelosi continued to defend her mother’s decision to rip up the speech, claiming that there were multiple lies in it, and suggested that she could have made a more dramatic protest.

“Plenty of things would have been worse than that. For example, she could have put his outstretched hand toward her, and she could have refused to shake it. Which surprised when I first watched the speech, I thought, ‘Wait, her hand’s out there, why isn’t he shaking her hand?'”

Christine Pelosi’s comment was a reference to Trump’s