Pelosi and Schumer are the bosses of these two btches McConnel and Ryan. Trump does not need them as intermediaries, he will thus speak to the virtual speakers of both houses, which the democrats apparently are
If Pelosi and Schumer were the leaders of the last dozen Democrats in Congress they would still be calling the shots. Republicans, in their 40 years in the minority-party wilderness were overcome by a pathology of minoritiness and cannot deal with the idea that they are a numerical majority. They came to believe sometime between FDR and LBJ that the Democrats are the natural ruling class in America and cannot imagine not deferring to them even when Democrats are numerically in the basement. It is like the few slaves after the War who went back to or who stayed on the old plantation because they could not imagine life without the structure of the old system.