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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:37 AM Jan 2019

Nancy Pelosi Defends Vacation During Shutdown: Trump May Not Know 'Hawaii is Part of the US'



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 TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie. Pelosi’s 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 Pelosi’s 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 we’ll 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 doesn’t realize that. I don’t know where the president observed the religious holiday of Christmas. Do you?”

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Nancy Pelosi Defends Vacation During Shutdown: Trump May Not Know 'Hawaii is Part of the US' (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
He didn't opt to stay. Butterflylady Jan 2019 #1
And apparently FLOTUS took the opportunity to spend time away... (nt) ehrnst Jan 2019 #9
Hawaii is part of the United States Of America Vogon_Glory Jan 2019 #2
Haha.. way to take a Cha Jan 2019 #3
Savannah, you don't recognize that it was a cheap shot? gratuitous Jan 2019 #4
"Cheap shot" implies that Democrats are weak and defenseless. mia Jan 2019 #7
Wish she hadn't risen to the bait mia Jan 2019 #5
I'm surprised Trump didn't tell everyone that it was an island dem4decades Jan 2019 #6
I'm sick of all the cheap shots that the repugs make about Hawaii! FM123 Jan 2019 #8
well, you have to understand that... getagrip_already Jan 2019 #10
She got a dig in about "religious holiday" MaryMagdaline Jan 2019 #11
The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief had his own peculiar religious ceremony Achilleaze Jan 2019 #12
Indeed! MaryMagdaline Jan 2019 #13
For crying out loud, she wasn't the Speaker yet. Hugin Jan 2019 #14

Butterflylady

(3,551 posts)
1. He didn't opt to stay.
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:45 AM
Jan 2019

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.

Cha

(297,774 posts)
3. Haha.. way to take a
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:50 AM
Jan 2019

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)
4. Savannah, you don't recognize that it was a cheap shot?
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:51 AM
Jan 2019

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?

dem4decades

(11,306 posts)
6. I'm surprised Trump didn't tell everyone that it was an island
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:59 AM
Jan 2019

Surrounded by a lot of water.

He's very proud about knowing that about islands.

FM123

(10,054 posts)
8. I'm sick of all the cheap shots that the repugs make about Hawaii!
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:06 AM
Jan 2019

Even that weasel Sessions referred to it as some island in the Pacific....

getagrip_already

(14,876 posts)
10. well, you have to understand that...
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:48 AM
Jan 2019

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)
11. She got a dig in about "religious holiday"
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:50 AM
Jan 2019

First, we know he didn’t go to church, and second, he’s trying to make Christians work on a sacred day. Talk about war on Christmas.

Pelosi’s daughter was right. Trump doesn’t know he’s bleeding.

Hugin

(33,222 posts)
14. For crying out loud, she wasn't the Speaker yet.
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:59 AM
Jan 2019

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.

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