The Unhinged Meltdown That Wasn't - Delish!

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The image was instantly iconic: President Donald Trump sits at a long table in the White House, flanked by more than a dozen powerful men in suits. Directly across from him, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the only woman at the table and his greatest political opponent, is on her feet and holding the floor. Her face is calm, her body language assertive but measured. Trump’s brow is furrowed, his mouth agape. She points a finger at the president as she speaks—the first face-off between Pelosi and Trump since the House launched an impeachment inquiry under her leadership.

Both Trump and Pelosi emerged from that meeting on Wednesday, each accusing the other of having had a “meltdown.” Trump offered the photo as proof of his case. “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown,” he tweeted, seemingly certain that this image of a woman speaking up in a meeting depicted some kind of psychotic break.

Perhaps it’s so foreign to Trump, who formerly owned two beauty pageants and notoriously bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy,” to be legitimately challenged by a member of the opposite sex that any woman’s assertion of power, to him, looks like a descent into madness. What everyone else saw was an image of a woman literally standing up to a president that more than half of the country wants impeached and removed from office. The photo was so flattering to Pelosi, and so widely celebrated on Twitter, that she made it her cover photo across social media platforms.

The fact that Pelosi continues to show Trump respect and conduct herself with measure and restraint around him is becoming almost hard to fathom, considering how justified she would be in having a rage fit at that meeting. Trump’s hasty foreign policy decision this week greenlighted Turkey’s deadly attacks on the Syrian Kurds, who have long fought alongside the U.S. against ISIS, drawing strong rebukes from both parties. He openly asked foreign countries to investigate his Democratic political opponents and blatantly used his office for financial gain. And, on a more personal level, he’s been referring to Pelosi as “Nervous Nancy” for months, which is certainly not a professional, mature, or respectful way for the president to address the Speaker of the House.

Of course, men in power are free to behave in unhinged ways. Twenty million people watched Brett Kavanaugh actually melt down before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year when confronted with a decades-old sexual assault allegation against him. He alternated between tears and indignant rage, contorting his face into a snarl and raising his voice in anger. "You sowed the wind for decades to come," he warned Democratic senators in what amounted to a threat. "The whole country will reap the whirlwind.” Trump praised his performance, and the Senate promptly confirmed him to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.

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