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"Satin and steel" Pelosi privately refers to Trump as the "Whiner in chief." (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/16/has-trump-met-his-match-pelosi-1106624 ‘She’s satin and steel’: Pelosi wages war on Trump
Pelosi’s move to derail Trump’s State of the Union address underscores her aggressive challenge to the president.
Donald Trump may have finally met his match in Nancy Pelosi.
As the partial government shutdown grinds on with no end in sight, the struggle between the president and the speaker is becoming an unprecedented political fight — with the fallout likely to extend far beyond this episode.
Pelosi privately refers to Trump as the “Whiner in chief." She’s questioned his manhood. She calls out Trump’s lies to his face and openly wonders whether he’s fit for the job. She mocks Trump for his privileged upbringing and his lack of empathy for the less fortunate. She jokes with other senior Democrats that if the American public saw how Trump acts in private, they’d “want to make a citizen’s arrest.”
And in effectively rescinding Trump’s invitation to address Congress for the annual State of the Union address, as she did Wednesday, Pelosi has pulled her most aggressive gambit yet.
After more than two years of Trump’s whipsaw presidency, Pelosi is saying what perhaps every Democrat feels should be said to Trump: No, no and no.
While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blocked many Trump initiatives during the last Congress, Pelosi is the first leader able and willing to really challenge Trump since he took office. And with control of the House and public polls firmly on her side in the shutdown fight, Pelosi is empowered to act. Unlike the Republicans on Capitol Hill, Trump can't really hurt her, back home or on Capitol Hill.
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“She’s satin and steel. He’s just untethered,” said Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), a longtime Pelosi friend and political ally.
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Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), himself an occasional Pelosi sparring partner over the years, said Trump is woefully misjudging the longtime Democratic leader if he thinks she can be bullied or pushed around.
"Oh, no, no, no," Hoyer said. "She doesn’t back down to anybody."
Pelosi’s move to derail Trump’s State of the Union address underscores her aggressive challenge to the president.
Donald Trump may have finally met his match in Nancy Pelosi.
As the partial government shutdown grinds on with no end in sight, the struggle between the president and the speaker is becoming an unprecedented political fight — with the fallout likely to extend far beyond this episode.
Pelosi privately refers to Trump as the “Whiner in chief." She’s questioned his manhood. She calls out Trump’s lies to his face and openly wonders whether he’s fit for the job. She mocks Trump for his privileged upbringing and his lack of empathy for the less fortunate. She jokes with other senior Democrats that if the American public saw how Trump acts in private, they’d “want to make a citizen’s arrest.”
And in effectively rescinding Trump’s invitation to address Congress for the annual State of the Union address, as she did Wednesday, Pelosi has pulled her most aggressive gambit yet.
After more than two years of Trump’s whipsaw presidency, Pelosi is saying what perhaps every Democrat feels should be said to Trump: No, no and no.
While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blocked many Trump initiatives during the last Congress, Pelosi is the first leader able and willing to really challenge Trump since he took office. And with control of the House and public polls firmly on her side in the shutdown fight, Pelosi is empowered to act. Unlike the Republicans on Capitol Hill, Trump can't really hurt her, back home or on Capitol Hill.
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“She’s satin and steel. He’s just untethered,” said Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), a longtime Pelosi friend and political ally.
-snip-
Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), himself an occasional Pelosi sparring partner over the years, said Trump is woefully misjudging the longtime Democratic leader if he thinks she can be bullied or pushed around.
"Oh, no, no, no," Hoyer said. "She doesn’t back down to anybody."
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