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Trump posted a picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointing at a White House meeting and she took it as a Twitter cover photo.
"Thanks to President Donald Trump for the new cover photo," Drew Hammill, deputy chief of staff for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, tweeted on October 16 after Ms. Pelosi updated the new cover photo.
A picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointing to the President at a White House meeting on October 16, posted by Trump on Twitter Photo: Twitter/Donald J. Trump
Democratic leaders in the US congress previously traveled 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. vote against.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Senate leader Chuck Schumer said they left when Trump "started calling President Pelosi a third-class politician". "He was offended, especially to the chairman of the House of Representatives. She was completely calm, but the President called her a third-rate politician," Schumer said. "This is not a dialogue but an attack. A crude attack, not focused on the facts."
Pelosi later said that Trump actually called her a "third-class politician". White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham described the meeting differently, saying that Pelosi "had no intention of listening" and Trump was "cautious" and "assertive".
US President Donald Trump (left) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Photo: AFP
Later that day, Trump posted on Facebook and Twitter a series of photos of the White House meeting, including a picture of Pelosi standing and pointing to Trump in the opposite seat with a comment criticizing the Speaker of the House of Representatives " Nancy is hot. " In another post, he called Pelosi "the sick".
Pelosi soon took the picture as a cover image for her Twitter account, a move considered a response to Trump's attack.
Tensions between Democrats and the White House have recently escalated after the House of Representatives opened an impeachment investigation against Trump against a phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenski in July. The White House and the Pentagon all refused. cooperating with the investigation of the House of Representatives.
