Pelosi Addresses Ripping Up Trump Speech: ‘The Courteous Thing to Do Considering the Alternatives’

When President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address tonight, Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately ripped it up.

.@SpeakerPelosi: “I tore it up” pic.twitter.com/agYfG65wKC

— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) February 5, 2020

Pelosi got criticism for the move, and the official White House Twitter account blasted the Speaker:

Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:

One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.

The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.

The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.

A service member’s reunion with his family.

That’s her legacy.

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 5, 2020

As Pelosi walked out, a Fox News producer asked her why she ripped up the speech.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on why she ripped up President Trump’s speech: “Because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.” pic.twitter.com/nYTjAZAwGo

— Jason Donner (@jason_donner) February 5, 2020

She called it “the courteous thing to do, considering the alternatives.”

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