Democracy Dies in Darkness

Trump shares heavily edited video that highlights verbal stumbles by Pelosi and questions her mental acuity

May 24, 2019 at 9:44 a.m. EDT
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed May 23 that President Trump wants to be impeached, but that House Democrats are "not on a path" to impeachment. (Video: Reuters)

President Trump shared a video on Twitter Thursday night that spliced together several verbal stumbles of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a news conference earlier in the day, further escalating a spat in which both have questioned the other’s mental fitness.

“PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE,” Trump wrote in his tweet, quoting the chyron from Fox Business Network, which aired the video Thursday night on its show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”