{"id":319678,"date":"2020-02-05T05:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319678"},"modified":"2020-02-05T05:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:45:40","slug":"nancy-pelosi-rips-up-copy-of-trumps-state-of-the-union-speech-after-handshake-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nancy-pelosi-rips-up-copy-of-trumps-state-of-the-union-speech-after-handshake-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi rips up copy of Trump\u2019s State of the Union speech after handshake snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319679 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nancy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/nancy-2.jpg 465w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/nancy-2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/nancy-2-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/>Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi tore in half a copy of Donald Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address on Tuesday given to her by the President just as he concluded his remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When asked after the event why she ripped up the speech, Pelosi replied to reporters,&#8221;because it was a courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This all started when President Trump\u00a0snubbed a handshake offer from the Pelosi, the House speaker\u00a0when he arrived to deliver the address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pelosi took to her twitter account and wrote, \u201cDemocrats will never stop extending the hand of friendship to get the job done #ForThePeople. We will work to find common ground where we can, but will stand our ground where we cannot #SOTU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The White House responded to Pelosi&#8217;s decision to tear the speech, claiming that her legacy was now tied to ripping up the things President Trump mentioned in the address, such as one of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump avoided the subject of his impeachment in the early portion of his speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Republicans from both houses of Congress chanted \u2018four more years\u2019 as the President stood at the lectern in the chamber of the House with a presidential election almost nine months away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump welcomed Sgt. Townsend Williams of North Carolina back from Afghanistan. He walked into the chamber to be reunited with his wife, Amy, and their two young children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAmy Williams is a military spouse and mother of two young children. She works full time and devotes hundreds of hours to helping military families, all while raising her two children as her husband serves his fourth deployment. Their family was reunited tonight at #SOTU,\u201d The White House tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi tore in half a copy of Donald Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address on Tuesday given to her by the President just as he concluded his remarks. When asked after the event why she ripped up the speech, Pelosi replied to reporters,&#8221;because it was a courteous thing to do considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[64,12536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319683,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319678\/revisions\/319683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}