The appearance of Nancy Pelosi is currently making headlines in the US President’s speech on the state of the nation. The Democratic spokeswoman for the House of Representatives is considered a vocal opponent of Donald Trump, the two have criticized each other publicly. Now she was sitting right behind the US President when he gave his third speech on the state of the nation in the US Congress.
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The speech lasted about an hour and a half, which Trump mainly used for a lot of self-praise, In the end, he enjoyed the applause from the Republican MPs. Pelosi, in turn, rose from her chair behind him, picked up several sheets of paper – and tore them openly.
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It quickly became known in the US media that the papers were Trump’s speech manuscript. At first this was not confirmed. When journalists Pelosi asked about it a little later and asked why she had done so, she answered with little misunderstanding: “Because it was the polite option given the alternatives.”
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At the beginning of the speech, there had been a strange moment when Trump did not shake hands. She pulled her hand back, shrugged slightly, and smiled. It was not clear whether Trump deliberately disregarded the gesture.
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Last year, Pelosi had caused a sensation in Trump’s speech on the state of the nation: she applauded the U.S. President with his arms stretched out and his eyes challenging. “Pelosi invented ‘fuck you clapping'” it was said at the time,
Judgment expected in the impeachment procedure
Pelosi is considered one of Trump’s most important political opponents. The House of Representatives she led, in the hall of which Trump was now giving his speech on the state of the nation, initiated impeachment proceedings against the President in December because of the Ukraine affair. The so-called impeachment process, which was subsequently conducted in the US Senate, will end on Wednesday with the vote on the charges. Trump’s impeachment is considered extremely unlikely because his Republicans have a majority in the Senate and are firmly behind the president.
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Pelosi’s gesture after Trump’s speech once again made it clear how deep the gaps between Republicans and Democrats are – and how bitterly the political conflict will be conducted in the election year 2020.
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