The former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, had a setback on Tuesday. She attempted to critique Donald Trump’s “cognitive disorders,” but in the process, she made the exact same linguistic error that she had accused him of.
Once Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary, Pelosi’s attempt to condemn him backfired when she appeared on MSNBC.
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Get off to a great start! The anchor of MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, didn’t hold back when bringing up Trump’s several linguistic blunders when running for office in New Hampshire.
Trump’s mispronunciation of Nikki Haley’s name as Pelosi garnered media attention. While talking about Pelosi’s involvement in the Capitol raid, NBC reported on his name confusion.
“You have been invoked in this current discussion that we’re having, I’m sorry to say,” As she presented Pelosi to her audience, Maddow stated, “because the former president in campaigning in New Hampshire did repeatedly try to attack you over the response to the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building.”
Haley chastised Trump for using her name instead of Pelosi’s when Maddow brought it up.
“We’ve heard what Nikki Haley thought about that, that confusion, that mistake by Donald Trump. But I don’t know what you thought about it, and I’m curious,” Maddow said, smirking.
“Well, let me just say, I’m not gonna spend too much time on Donald Trump’s cognitive disorders,” Pelosi stated, criticizing Donald Trump’s mental health as she started her speech.
“But what I am gonna say … [Trump] tried to say that Nikki Haley did not allow the National Guard to come, but it was Nancy Pelosi,” remarked the Democrat from California.
Pelosi attempted to clarify that the former president was attempting to claim that, while serving as speaker of the House in January 2021, she had turned down the request of the National Guard to send guards to the Capitol while Congress convened to confirm the results of the election in November 2020 and a sizable contingent of pro-Trump demonstrators had gathered.
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Rather than referring to “Pelosi,” Trump mentioned Haley by name.
Moments after mocking Trump’s “cognitive disorders,” Pelosi does the same error.
“It was neith … It was nobody,” Pelosi continued. “It was Joe,” she said before pausing for a split second, then added, “It was Donald Trump.”
Essentially, Pelosi blurted out President Joe Biden’s first name instead of Trump’s, committing the exact same linguistic faux pas that she was criticizing Trump for doing.
Who was to blame for the security lapses that day at the Capitol and the delay in mobilizing the National Guard to manage the throng was at question.
House Republicans’ study from December 2022 came to the conclusion that people were more concerned with the “optics” of seeing armed guards in the Capitol than with security, and that at that point-Paul Irving, House Sergeant-at-Arms “succumbed to political pressures from the Office of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrat leadership leading up to January 6, 2021.”
A report reveals how pressure and concerns led to delays in the deployment of the national guard, which ultimately caused chaos.
