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Trump Just Slammed Nancy Pelosi for Wanting to Take an ‘Excursion’ While Government is Shutdown
Donald Trump slammed Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for planning to leave the country on a congressional delegation during the government shutdown.
He also needled the Speaker for taking donations from California’s wine country, writing that workers would still have access to come work there even after a wall is built on the border.
“Why would Nancy Pelosi leave the Country with other Democrats on a seven day excursion when 800,000 great people are not getting paid,” Trump tweeted.
Why would Nancy Pelosi leave the Country with other Democrats on a seven day excursion when 800,000 great people are not getting paid. Also, could somebody please explain to Nancy & her “big donors” in wine country that people working on farms (grapes) will have easy access in!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2019
In retaliation for asking him to delay his State of the Union address until the government shutdown is over, Trump “postponed” the trip Pelosi was supposed to take yesterday. While the president said the House Speaker still had the option of flying commercially, he cut off her delegation from the military plane they were expected to take for security reasons.
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Trump’s move has drawn criticism on several fronts, one reason being his attempt to portray Pelosi’s plan to visit NATO and troops in Afghanistan as a “seven day excursion” for pleasure. Pelosi’s team has also responded to the cancellation by recalling how Trump made a similar trip a few weeks ago when he went to see troops in Iraq during the shutdown.
Pelosi ended up cancelling her trip, and her spokesman issued a statement.
“After President Trump revoked the use of military aircraft to travel to Afghanistan, the delegation was prepared to fly commercially to proceed with this vital trip to meet with our commanders and troops on the front lines,” Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement.
“In the middle of the night, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service provided an updated threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip. This morning, we learned that the Administration had leaked the commercial travel plans as well.”
The second half of Trump’s tweet begs the question of whether he’s accusing Pelosi of profiting from undocumented laborers working in the vineyards of California. Based on Trump’s statement, its really not clear if he’s threatening a wave of immigrants, a promise for visas, or something else entirely when he says “people working on farms (grapes) will have easy access in!”
Twitter had some thoughts:
Trump keeps saying excursion. Does he know what that word means? Pelosi was going to freakin’ Afghanistan, a war zone. One that Trump hasn’t visited, by the way.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) January 18, 2019
Why would you dismiss a visit to our troops in Afghanistan as an "excursion" while lending Air Force One to Melania for a lavish Florida vacation… paid for by taxpayers… during a government shutdown?
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) January 18, 2019
Why would you have gone to Iraq for a photo op when you cut the salaries of vets? Why would your wife fly on a gov't plane to your for-profit, emoluments violating country club in Fl? Why would you instruct your fixer to lie to Congress? You're a traitor. And demented. Resign. pic.twitter.com/nyrhzdhfT1
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) January 18, 2019
You're a piece of shit.
There's nothing redeeming about you.
History will piss on your name for eternity.
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) January 18, 2019
Why did you travel to Iraq while 800,000 Americans were not being paid? Why did Melania travel to Mar-a-Lago while 800,000 Americans were not being paid? Answer that before you question others!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 18, 2019
Pelosi wants to travel in a war zone. She is much tougher than you are, pussy.
— Thorsten (@Airvooocht) January 18, 2019
a.) @SpeakerPelosi deserves to be referred to by you with her title
b.) She was going to a war zone you have been too afraid to visit
c.) She was doing her job
d.) While denying her the plane, you gave one to your wife to go on vacay
e.) This will not distract from your crimes— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) January 18, 2019
Trump has much bigger fish to fry than worrying about Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Afghanistan to visit our brave troops overseas. We have an unindicted co-conspirator in the White House who must be impeached and maybe even imprisoned if he doesn’t resign ahead of time.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) January 18, 2019
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