John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Nancy Pelosi’s ‘sarcastic’ clapping steals Trump’s thunder at State of the Union Address”
Her causing him to delay the State of the Union Address worked beautifully to make him look small and weak to his political base. No tactic could be more effective against an ego-maniac like Trump.
Of course, the reality is that he is small and weak. A coward and an ineffective leader who blusters and threatens and calls names. I have no general admiration for Pelosi, but she demonstrates she has the ability still to be a pretty formidable opponent.
Pelosi’s odd clapping at the end of the speech, with fingers all pointed towards Trump (someone called it her “fuck you” gesture), and her accompanying facial expression, somewhere between sarcasm and contempt, made a very effective statement.
What can one make of Trump’s erratic behavior with swings between nasty statements about other politicians and his scripted words about working together?
The man literally is absurd, and really nothing he says about anything is worth paying attention to and applauding. Pelosi filled the formal polite requirement of the staged event but let everyone see clearly what she really thought.
