“Lady, you need to get control of yourself,” the protester says. “Let go of my flag,” the protester says, trying to pull away from her.Īs the protester breaks away from the woman, she follows him and says, “You should get informed about who you’re supporting.” The video begins with the woman gripping the protester’s flag while shaking her hands and asking, “Who is the head of this?” Drivers also screamed homophobic slurs at them /QOZTEHUcGI- Kyle Land September 13, 2021 And it something short of “stronger than ever before” – as Trump described it on Tuesday.A woman with a Trump shirt attempted to rip a BLM flag from a counter protestor’s hands outside the protest in Boise. (Trump snubbed Pelosi’s attempt at a handshake before he began speaking on Tuesday night.) We are increasingly living in two totally separate Americas, each with their own news sources, heroes and villains. They struggle to spend time in the same room or even be cordial to one another. Not only do the two parties disagree on the correct policy prescriptions to fix what ails the country – nothing new there! – but they also now simply detest one another. More so than anything Trump said in either of his last two speeches, these two Pelosi photos, and the reactions they have elicited, tell the real story of the state of the union. The moment captured in that photo was, Republicans believed, how Democrats really viewed them – people to be (barely) tolerated but not really taken seriously. ![]() It became an instant meme.įor Republicans, Pelosi’s clap was symbolic of the condescension that she and the rest of her party had and have for Trump, still unable to get over the fact that he won the 2016 election and was president. Good for you! It encapsulated her (and their) frustrations with Republican lawmakers – and some in the media – lauding Trump for occasionally acting like an adult. Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Imagesįor Democrats, Pelosi’s golf clap seemed to say to Trump: Congratulations, you read a speech. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence applaud President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address on February 5, 2019, in Washington. The reaction to the ripping moment is reminiscent of nothing so much as how a photo of Pelosi clapping at Trump during the 2019 State of the Union became a similar litmus test. In Democrats’ closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday morning, Pelosi further explained her move: “He shredded the truth so I shredded his speech,” according to one person in the room. AaopLt8f9f- Mike Pompeo February 5, 2020 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the nation’s top diplomat, went even more troll-y – tweeting out a picture of a crying Lisa Simpson. It’s clear the contrast here was a President who spent an hour and a half making a speech about America and Nancy Pelosi in the final moments tried to make it about her, and I think the American people see through it.” “I wasn’t sure if she was ripping up the speech or ripping up the Constitution. “I think it was a new low,” Vice President Mike Pence said of the rip in an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday morning. Conservatives (and Trump allies) seized on the moment as a sign of the petulance and childishness of both Pelosi and her party, still unable to come to grips with the fact that Trump is president. ![]() Liberals celebrated Pelosi’s move as an act of defiance – a demonstration of the frustration, annoyance and contempt with which she (and they) viewed Trump’s heavily political (and theatrical) speech. ![]() Within seconds, Twitter flooded with reactions to the rip. Asked to explain why she did what she did, Pelosi said that it was “a courteous thing to do considering the alternative. Yes, that’s Pelosi tearing Trump’s speech in half even as the din of applause from overjoyed Republicans is still echoing through the House Chamber. Speaker Nancy Pelosi tears her copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address after he delivered it to a joint session of Congress on February 4, 2020.
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