Former President Trump on Wednesday threw down the gauntlet, daring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to face him in a debate, asserting she wouldn’t last even five minutes against his prowess.
Labeling Pelosi as “total nut job,” and a “cognitive mess,” Trump launched his verbal barrage via Truth Social, denouncing her recent criticisms of President Biden as evidence of her own disarray.
“Crazy Nancy Pelosi is a Cognitive mess. She has now turned against Crooked [President Biden.] She’s saying he doesn’t have what it takes,” Trump ranted on Truth Social. “Really? I’d love to debate her about what the Radical Left Democrats have done to ruin our Country. She wouldn’t last 5 minutes!”
Trump’s challenge to Pelosi followed an earlier social media salvo, where he lambasted her attempts to promote Biden as a “mental giant,” deriding her as more deranged than “Sleepy Crooked Joe” himself.
The animosity between Trump and Pelosi stretches back through a history rife with antagonism, including Pelosi’s infamous tearing of Trump’s State of the Union address and his impeachments.
With Pelosi persistently warning of the peril she perceives in a potential Trump return to the White House, Trump dismissed her claims as “Radical Left Democrat Disinformation,” contending that Biden’s credibility as a leader is severely compromised.
“She is a total nut job, who impeached me TWICE, and lost. Now I see her going around, barely, and saying that I am a threat to Democracy,” Trump wrote. “No, this is just Radical Left Democrat Disinformation, which is all that they’re good at. She’s trying to convince anyone that will listen that Crooked Joe is a mental giant, and in great form, which everyone knows, he is not.”
As Biden faces mounting pressure within his own party, Pelosi has acknowledged it’s ultimately his decision whether to pursue reelection.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said on MSNBC. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision. Because time is running short.
“But he’s beloved, he is respected and people want him to make that decision, not me.”
