USPelosi said that the picture she pointed to Trump was taken when she talked about Trump-Putin relations at a White House meeting.

US President Donald Trump on October 16 tweeted a photo of the White House meeting with Democratic leaders in Congress accompanied by the caption: "Nervous Nancy." In the photo, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the only woman standing up in the row opposite the President and the only one standing up, pointing at him.

In response to Trump's onslaught, the House of Representatives Office Office then used the image as a cover image of Ms. Pelosi's Twitter, making the image more widespread.

"At the time, maybe I was saying 'All roads lead to Putin'," said Pelosi on October 17 explaining the moment when the controversial photo was taken. Pelosi insisted that she was conveying a simple message to Trump at the time to criticize the President for allowing Russia to get involved in Syria.

Pelosi has long assumed that there was a connection between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Democrats in the House of Representatives also repeatedly accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

Democratic leaders in Congress on October 16 went to the White House to meet with the Trump administration after the House of Representatives passed a resolution criticizing the President's decision to withdraw troops from Syria with overwhelming votes of 354 votes. and 60 votes against.

Pelosi said at the meeting, she told Trump that in fact, he had broken his promise to "bring soldiers home" during the campaign, when the Pentagon announced it would send thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia.

"If the President says 'I said when I was running, I would bring the army home', then that house is Saudi Arabia?" Pelosi questioned Trump.

The chairman of the House of Representatives also accused the president of failing to follow up with plans after withdrawing troops from Syria and questioning who the U.S. would cooperate with if the self-proclaimed Islamic State rebel continued. in Syria.

Trump and Republican members then debated questions from Ms. Pelosi as well as Democratic leaders at the meeting. Even the meeting quickly turned into a brawl when the President did not hesitate to attack Pelosi as a "third-class politician," angering Democratic party leaders back.

The White House and Trump aides dismiss the way Democratic leaders described the meeting, asserting that the President acted "cautiously, practically, and decisively", while deciding to leave out. President Pelosi "is hard to understand".

In response, Pelosi argued that future White House meetings should be recorded to ensure transparency and that the public know what happened.