Pelosi: 'Morbidly obese' was taste of Trump's 'own medicine'

YAHOO.COM ^ | 5/20/2020 | LAURIE KELLMAN

[bitt]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she called President Donald Trump “morbidly obese” because he's put down women for their weight. And besides, she suggested, the president could lose a few pounds himself as the coronavirus bears down on the nation's capital.

“I gave him a dose of his own medicine. He’s called women one thing or another over time, and I thought he thinks that passes off as humor in certain cultures," Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference. "I was only quoting what doctors had said about him, so I was being factual in a very sympathetic way.”

For the record, the president is obese, but not morbidly so. Pelosi on Monday called Trump “morbidly obese.” He responded by dismissing her as “a waste of time.”

Pelosi's level of sympathy is unclear. Even as the virus ravages Americans and the U.S. economy, the two are barely speaking to each other.

They have sparred since the beginning of the Trump presidency and more sharply since Pelosi ascended to the speakership in 2019, for the second time. The topics have ranged from the historic — a government shutdown and Trump's impeachment — to playground-quality name-calling and who has the last word.

But really, it's always been about who has more power, a commodity never more critical than during a pandemic that has killed more than 92,000 in the U.S. and left more than 36 million people looking for work. The spread of the coronavirus, which poses a greater risk of death for older adults and people with health problems, is still significant in Washington. Trump, 73, and Pelosi, 80, are working from opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue on what's expected to be another multitrillion-dollar rescue package.

[Kickass Conservative]

Nancy, POTUS Trump is real and he is spectacular.

[Political Junkie Too]

Pelosi's level of sympathy is unclear. Even as the virus ravages Americans and the U.S. economy, the two are barely speaking to each other.

As I've posted repeatedly all year, Pelosi's been deranged ever since President Trump bested her last year by canceling her European family vacation on a government jet after she disinvited him to the SOTU address during the government shutdown that she and Schumer started.

She is now blinded by hatred of President Trump, and is no longer capable of rational thinking.

-PJ

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

That's very interesting. Your post reads like a B-School case study; only, in this case it could be a case study in a military command school. There are so many issues: mismatch of standards and mission; perverse incentive structure; invalid metrics; creeping corruption; etc. You should write it up, and get it published.

[Redwood71]

“If the press would one day wake up and be fair, it would be the end of her.”

Not in California, especially San Francisco and Los Angeles. They are so “stupid liberal” there they wouldn’t vote her out if she was dead. And there is already some question on that from the neck up.

But, at least it would be one of the few times live voters voted for a dead person rather than the other way around in California and democrat candidates.

rwood

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Crazy Nancy.