Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bragged about the viral moment she tore up President Trump’s State of the Union address speech.
In February 2020, President Trump delivered his third State of the Union Address during his first administration.
Trump snubbed Pelosi and refused to shake her hand as he approached the dais to deliver his speech.
Pelosi couldn’t stand to listen to Trump while he touted his accomplishments so she ripped up the president’s speech after he was finished speaking.
It was previously reported that Pelosi put tiny tears in each page before she dramatically ripped up Trump’s entire speech.
“So she made a tiny tear in the margin of the paper so that she could find this untruth. Then she found another thing she thought was untrue, and another, and another. She said by the time he was through speaking, the whole speech had little tears along the margins of things he had said that she said she thought were false. That’s when she decided, ‘I might as well tear this up,’” USA Today’s Susan Page previously told CNN.
At the time, Congressman Mike Johnson (now House Speaker) said Pelosi committed a felony when she ripped up Trump’s speech.
Johnson said Pelosi destroyed an official House record.
“Much has been said over the last 24 hours about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s antics during President Donald J. Trump’s delivery of his State of the Union address Tuesday night,” Johnson previously said. “Her dramatic facial expressions and eyerolling were enough to violate the rules of decorum and the traditions of civility in the House, but when she ripped up the written document on live television, she crossed a different line.”
Nearly six years later and Pelosi is boasting about the viral moment she tore up Trump’s SOTU speech during an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
“People like the tearing up of the speech. I didn’t intend to go to the speech to tear it up. I just, the first part of it, I tore a page because he was lying. And then the next page, then the next page. I thought it was a manifesto of lies all throughout, so I better tear up the whole speech,” Pelosi said.
“Now, the speeches are on strong paper, so you have to do it a few times to get it done, but I had no intention of doing that. I thought my staff was going to die,” Pelosi said with a smile on her face.
Pelosi told Jon Karl that she gets more requests to sign photos of her ripping up Trump’s SOTU speech than anything else.
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