It is no secret that President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have had a rather contentious relationship over the past year.
And Pelosi is reportedly sharing just how eager she is to see the current president leave office. Politico reports that the House speaker told her leadership team over the weekend, “I’m counting down the hours ’til he’s gone.”
“I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands, and his feet,” she added.
Earlier this year, Pelosi revealed that the two leaders had not spoken to each other in several months.
During an appearance on MSNBC in September, she was asked about Trump’s allegations that mail-in voting was rife with fraud. She said, “Forget him.”
“Let’s not dwell on what he did in the past. Let’s go forward and crush the virus. Let’s go forward and have a free and fair election, and whoever wins, we will honor that decision by the American people,” she added.
However, she explained she has spoken to members of his administration and that she does not believe speaking with Trump is a “good use of time.”
The current feud erupted in 2019 after a meeting at the White House with Trump and Congressional leaders fell apart, with the president calling Pelosi a “third-rate politician.”
“I pray for the president all the time, and I tell him that. I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now we have to pray for his health, because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president,” she said of the meeting.
The feud continued into the new year when Pelosi dramatically ripped up the text of Trump’s State of the Union address when he concluded speaking, as IJR reported.
During the non-partisan National Prayer Breakfast, Trump took a shot at the Democratic leader as he said, “Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so.”
And in May, she took a shot as his weight amid reports that he was taking hydroxychloroquine in a bid to prevent COVID-19. She said, “He’s our president, and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group, what is morbidly obese, they say.”
Trump fired back and said, “Pelosi is a sick woman. She’s got a lot of problems, a lot of mental problems.”