US President Donald Trump on Thursday responded to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of her retirement from Congress, describing it as “a great thing for America.”
“Nancy Pelosi’s retirement is a great thing for America,” Trump said in a quote shared on social media by Fox News host Peter Doocy. “She was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country.”
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“She was rapidly losing control of her party and would never come back,” Trump also said, according to Ducey. “I’m very honored that she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. Nancy Pelosi is a vastly overrated politician.”
Nancy Pelosi announces retirement
Pelosi, 85, announced Thursday that she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives, ending a career in which she represented San Francisco for nearly 40 years. Pelosi was also the first woman to serve as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, and is widely considered among the most powerful women in American politics.
During her first term, from 2007 to 2011, she led the House of Representatives to pass landmark legislation into law—the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank financial reforms in the wake of the Great Recession, and the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy against LGBT military service members.
Nancy Pelosi vs. Donald Trump
Pelosi became the first speaker to regain office in nearly 50 years, and her second term, from 2019 to 2023, will likely become more important than her first, particularly as the Democratic Party’s antidote to Trump.
Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives — twice — first in 2019 for withholding U.S. aid to Ukraine while it faced a hostile Russia on its border, and then in 2021, days after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Senate acquitted him in both cases.
Pelosi stood on a special Jan. 6 panel investigating Trump’s role in sending a mob of his supporters to the Capitol, when most Republicans had refused to investigate, and released a 1,000-page report that became the first full accounting of what happened as the defeated president tried to stay in office.
After Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections, Pelosi announced that she would not seek another term as party leader.
Who will succeed Nancy Pelosi?
Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, Pelosi faces a potential primary challenge in California. Leftist newcomer Saikat Chakrabarty, who helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political rise in New York, has campaigned, and state Sen. Scott Wiener is also considering a run.
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