Overview
- In a CNN interview in San Francisco, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called President Donald Trump “a vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”
- Pelosi accused Trump of failing to honor the Constitution and claimed he turned the Supreme Court into a “rogue court,” abolished the House, chilled the press, and scared lawful immigrants.
- She endorsed Proposition 50, which would let California’s legislature bypass the state’s independent redistricting commission to redraw congressional maps.
- Pelosi framed the measure as pushback to mid-decade redistricting moves such as those enacted in Texas that Trump endorsed.
- Her comments were reported as the federal government remains shut down and the House stays adjourned under Speaker Mike Johnson, and she declined to say if she will run again while asserting she would win if she did.