Pelosi Suggests Trump Lacks ‘Confidence’ To Make Infrastructure Deal

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested slyly that perhaps President Donald Trump just lacks the “confidence” that he can meet the “greatness of the challenge” of infrastructure reform as an explanation for why he stormed out of their meeting earlier on Wednesday.

“I pray for the President of the United States,” she added.

Trump held his own press conference in the Rose Garden just minutes before, saying that Pelosi’s comment about how he’s “engaging in a cover-up” was the reason that he left the meeting in a huff.

He added that there is a choice to be made between “investigation” and “investment,” implying that he won’t work with Democrats unless they cease their oversight activities.

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  1. She is playing him like a fiddle…“Lacks Confidence” is going to hurt…

  2. “His confidence is small, red, and somewhat mushroom-shaped”, she added.

    (This one will sting worst of all because it’s true. He does lack the confidence to engage with Pelosi. He just ran off like a…)

  3. Is already hurting, I bet.

  4. He is so predictable and Pelosi is using that to the max. The infrastructure deal was never going to happen anyway, so there is no loss there. She is slowly turning up the heat and the next few weeks are going to be pretty entertaining.

  5. LOL! And in she goes…delivering a stiff-armed jab to the delusions of grandeur with the “cover-up” comment, followed by a vicious haymaker to the manhood with this “confidence” comment hahahaha

    She’s got the narcissism beatdown shtick down pat.

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