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Nancy Pelosi Defends Vacation During Shutdown: Trump May Not Know Hawaii is Part of the United States
by Colby Hall | Jan 3rd, 2019, 7:50 am
Representative Nancy Pelosi defended her holiday vacation in Hawaii during an ongoing government shutdown in a wide-ranging interview with TODAYs Savannah Guthrie. Pelosis trip to Hawaii became something of a talking point on conservative media outlets as President Donald Trump opted to spend his holiday break in the White House instead of traveling to his Palm Beach home Mar-a-Lago.
Guthrie mentioned a swipe taken by President Trump about Pelosis family vacation, to which the presumptive Speaker replied I observed the Christmas holiday for a few days and I cut in time half the time I would have had.
Guthrie followed up Is that a cheap shot?
After claiming this to be something of a trivial distraction, Pelosi replied: the fact is we all stood ready and told our members well have 24 hours notice for all of us to be where we need to be. She then added the president may not know this, but Hawaii is part of the United States of America. Maybe he doesnt realize that. I dont know where the president observed the religious holiday of Christmas. Do you?
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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nancy-pelosi-defends-vacation-during-shutdown-trump-may-not-know-hawaii-is-part-of-the-united-states/
Butterflylady
(3,551 posts)Orange face didn't opt to stay at the Whitehouse, he had to stay. Somebody told him it would look really bad if he left.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,132 posts)OUCH!
Cha
(297,774 posts)big Swipe at dumb trump, Nancy!
Hawaii being where Pres Obama was born and the Idiot being the moronic birther along with birther Barbie.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What does NBC pay you all that money for, if you can't figure that out? I knew it was a cheap shot immediately, particularly coming from a man who's spent more than a quarter of his time in office at his vacation properties on our dime and to line his own pockets. Have you forgotten all about that already?
mia
(8,363 posts)We're not.
mia
(8,363 posts)of the dimwit dwelling in the White House.
dem4decades
(11,306 posts)Surrounded by a lot of water.
He's very proud about knowing that about islands.
FM123
(10,054 posts)Even that weasel Sessions referred to it as some island in the Pacific....
getagrip_already
(14,876 posts)Rhode Island always confused them. It's not really an island, but that is in it's name (full name Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations).
So rhode island isn't an island, but Hawaii is. Life can be sooooo confusing.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)First, we know he didnt go to church, and second, hes trying to make Christians work on a sacred day. Talk about war on Christmas.
Pelosis daughter was right. Trump doesnt know hes bleeding.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Hugin
(33,222 posts)I shouldn't even know she took a vacation.
It was Ryan who should've been burning the midnight oil. Lets get back to the facts.
But, there's the so-called liberally biased news for you, catapulting the smears before the Democrats even assert their majority.