WASHINGTON — President Trump was delighted by the news that his longtime adversary, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is retiring at the end of her term in January 2027.
“The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America. She was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country,” Trump told Fox News’s Peter Doocy. “She was rapidly losing control of her party.”
“I’m very honored she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. Nancy Pelosi is a highly overrated politician.”
Pelosi, 85, announced Thursday that she won’t vie for a 20th term in the lower chamber and instead will close off her nearly four-decade career in the House, where she became the first female Speaker, a role she held twice.
The Golden State Democrat had been one of Trump’s fiercest rivals during his first term in the White House, sicking the chamber’s powerful committees on him and backing two separate and unsuccessful impeachment efforts.
“This president is impeached for life regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell,” Pelosi gloated during the first impeachment. “There is nothing the Senate can do to ever erase that.”
Infamously, Pelosi ripped up Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address while seated behind him at the House Rostum.
“She’s a sick puppy in my opinion, she really is,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” weeks later. “She’s got a lot of problems.”
During that State of the Union address, she refused to even shake Trump’s hand. “He’s just a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the earth,” Pelosi told CNN this week, later agreeing with the interviewer’s language that the president is “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”
Despite stepping down as the top House Democrat after Republicans retook the House in the 2022 midterm elections, Pelosi had remained a massively influential member of her party’s caucus.
She also played a key role in the Democratic mutiny against former President Joe Biden following his disastrous debate against Trump last year.
“I decided a while ago that Donald Trump will never set foot in the White House again, as president of the United States or in any other capacity,” she later told The Guardian about her machinations during the mutiny against Biden, her longtime friend and fellow Catholic Democrat.
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Trump was far from alone in cheering Pelosi’s retirement.
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Richard Hudson (R-NC) chided that “Radical socialist Zohran Mamdani takes over the Democrat Party and even Nancy Pelosi has had enough.”
Meanwhile, Democrats quickly hailed Pelosi, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) calling her “the greatest Speaker of all time.”
“The United States is a much better nation today because Nancy Pelosi dedicated her life to serving the children, the climate, the country and the American people,” Jeffries added.
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