Nancy Pelosi mocked Donald Trump’s ‘fat butt’ and said the then-president has been ‘crazy for a long time’ and Lindsay Graham said ‘damaged’ Trump needs to fix ‘personality problems’, bombshell new book claims
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed then-President Donald Trump in the days following the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill
- She said he had a ‘fat butt’ and was ‘crazy’
- Pelosi had a blunt phone call with General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss safety of nuclear codes
- ‘Is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?,’ she said of Trump
- ‘This is bad, but who knows what he might do?’ Pelosi said. ‘He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time’
- Lindsey Graham said Trump has ‘personality problems’ that will need to be dealt with if he seeks the GOP presidential nomination in 2024
- Details are in Bob Woodward and Bob Costa’s forthcoming book Peril
Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed then-President Donald Trump in the days following the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill, mocking him for having a ‘fat butt’ and saying he’s been ‘crazy for a long time,’ a bombshell new book revealed.
While Trump’s close friend and ally, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, said the former president has ‘personality problems’ that will need to be dealt with if he seeks the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
Pelosi had a blunt phone call with General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the days after the insurrection to discuss the process to launch America’s nuclear weapons.
She expressed her concern about Trump’s fitness to make such a decision, according to Bob Woodward and Bob Costa’s forthcoming book Peril, excerpts of which were published by CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
‘What I’m saying to you is that if they couldn’t even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, who even knows what else he may do? And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?,’ she said, according to the book.
‘This is bad, but who knows what he might do?’ Pelosi said. ‘He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time. So don’t say you don’t know what his state of mind is.’
According to Woodward and Costa, who said they had a transcript of the conversation, Milley responded: ‘Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything.’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed then-President Donald Trump in the days following the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill, saying he had a ‘fat butt’
Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump had an antagonistic relationship during their respective tenures running the congressional and executive branches of government
Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham golfing together in West Palm Beach, Fla., in May
Meanwhile, the book quotes Graham, who is close to Trump and still golfs with him, as having concerns about the former president.
‘If he wants to run, then he’s going to have to deal with his personality problems … we’ve got a very damaged team captain,’ Graham said, in reference to talk Trump might seek a second term in the White House.
Pelosi and Trump had an antagonistic relationship during their respective tenures running the congressional and executive branches of government. By Trump’s final year in office they were not on speaking terms.
The low point came during his final State of the Union address when he ignored her extended hand and refused to shake it at the beginning of his remarks. When he finished speaking, she tore up the text of his speech.
Bob Woodward and Bob Costa’s forthcoming book Peril is out Sept. 21
Pelosi said publicly in January that she called Milley to express her concern about Trump’s access to the nuclear codes.
Woodward and Costa’s book, out on September 21, reveals the details of that conversation.
‘What precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike?’ she asked him.
Milley assured her that there were ‘a lot of checks in the system.’
She’d also questioned his mental health, suggesting in May 2019 that his family hold an intervention and she challenged his physical health, calling him ‘morbidly obese’ in May 2020.
In response Trump called her a ‘sick woman’ with a lot of ‘mental problems.’
PRESIDENT TRUMP VS. SPEAKER PELOSI: THEIR GREATEST BATTLES
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump had an antagonistic relationship during their tenure running the congressional and executive branches of government. Here are some of their greatest battles:
May 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi compares President Donald Trump to a little kid who comes in with doggy do on his shoes.
She describes Trump as ‘a child who comes in with mud on his pants’ when she was asked about his propensity to hurl insults at people – usually via Twitter.
‘It’s like a child who comes in with mud on their pants or something,’ Pelosi said. ‘He comes in with doggy doo on his shoes and everybody who works with him has that on their shoes too for a very long time to come.’
Pelosi says she didn’t know President Donald Trump would be ‘so sensitive’ about his weight after she calls him ‘morbidly obese’ and he shoots back she has ‘mental problems.’ The two were in a war of words after she questioned his taking of hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against the coronavirus.
‘I didn’t know that he would be so sensitive. He’s always talking about other people’s avoirdupois, their weight, their pounds,’ she said.
‘Pelosi is a sick woman. She’s got a lot of problems, a lot of mental problems,’ President Trump said after she questioned his weight.
February 2020
After the impeachment inquiry was over, President Trump mocks Speaker Pelosi’s faith at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C.
‘I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say I pray for you when they know that’s not so. So many people have been hurt, and we can’t let that go on,’ he said.
Pelosi, a devout Catholic, has repeatedly said she prays for the president. She sat at the head table during Trump’s remarks and shakes her head. She purses her lips a few times as he spoke.
Also, President Trump refuses to shake Speaker Pelosi’s hand earlier that month when he arrived in the House chamber to give his annual State of the Union address.
At the end of the speech she tears up the text of his remarks and throws the ripped pages on the floor.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped apart her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address after he finished speaking
September 2019
Speaker Pelosi announces a formal House inquiry into the impeachment of President Trump. The House will vote on two charges against him but he is acquitted on both by the Senate.
October 2019
During a meeting at the White House on Syria, Speaker Pelosi and other top Democrats walk out.
She accuses Trump of having a meltdown. ‘We have to pray for his health – because this was a very serious meltdown,’ she said. Democrats said Trump called Pelosi a ‘third-rate politician’ during the meeting.
Trump tweets official White House photographs from inside the meeting captioning one: ‘Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!’
It shows his aides and the country’s most senior military leader staring at the table as Pelosi, standing, points a finger toward Trump. Pelosi embraces the picture, later making that image her Twitter cover photo.
Trump tweeted a picture taken by the White House photographer as evidence of what he claimed was Pelosi’s ‘unhinged meltdown’
May 2019
Speaker Pelosi suggests President Trump’s behavior is so erratic it requires an ‘intervention’ from his family and staff after he walks out of an infrastructure meeting at the White House with Democrats. She says he acted like a ‘baby’ in their sit-down.
‘I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country,’ she said.
He questions her intellectual capacities after he walks out of meeting and straight into White House Rose Garden to complain about her to reporters.
‘I’ll tell you what, I’ve been watching her, and I have been watching her for a long period of time, she’s not the same person. She’s lost it,’ Trump said.
‘I haven’t changed very much. Been very consistent. I am an extremely stable genius,’ he notes.
December 2018
In an Oval Office meeting on an impending government shut down, the two bicker over Trump’s request for funding for his border wall.
‘Mr. President,’ Pelosi told him at one point, ‘please don’t characterize the strength that I bring to this meeting as the leader of the House Democrats, who just won a big victory.’
Pelosi is photographed walking out of the White House in an orange coat, putting on her sunglasses – an image of her that went viral.
Pelosi leaving the White House in her orange coat after a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office
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