Pelosi’s SOTU Grenade Is First Sign Of Fight She’ll Bring To The ‘Whiner In Chief’

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 02: House Speaker designate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to journalists following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and fellow members of Congress about border security at the White House January 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump and House Democrats are no closer to a deal on funding for Trump’s border wall and reopening parts of the federal government that have been shuttered for the past 12 days. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 02: House Speaker designate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to journalists following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and fellow members of C... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 02: House Speaker designate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to journalists following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and fellow members of Congress about border security at the White House January 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump and House Democrats are no closer to a deal on funding for Trump’s border wall and reopening parts of the federal government that have been shuttered for the past 12 days. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Couched in formal language, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) note to President Donald Trump suggesting he write a letter for his State of the Union speech was an explosive grenade, and likely the first sign of the fight she’ll bring to, as she calls him privately, the “whiner in chief.”

According to a Wednesday Politico report, Pelosi finally has the power and favorable polling to stand up to the President in a way that Democrats couldn’t do in the minority. She also has the requisite temperament and experience to not be intimidated. Members of her caucus describe her a “badass” and “satin and steel.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), for one, doesn’t foresee Pelosi letting herself be pushed around by the President.

“Oh, no, no, no,” Hoyer told Politico. “She doesn’t back down to anybody.”

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  1. Badass
    noun

    1. a tough, uncompromising, or intimidating person.
      “one of them is a real badass, the other’s Donald Trump.”
  2. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    as she calls him privately, the “whiner in chief.”

    Hit him again!

  3. Quadrupling Trump’s frustration and outrage over Pelosi’s tactics is they’re being meted out by a woman. He cannot stand being challenged by anyone, but when it’s a woman it drives him insane.

  4. Avatar for kiwi kiwi says:

    The first sign was when she wiped the floor with him during the Oval Office meeting.

  5. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    Harder, Harder

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