[ April 18, 2024 ]
With all the hoopla surrounding the SOTU, millions more will watch. Trump trumps them again.
Trump taunts Pelosi: I’m giving my SOTU in the House
The president says his speech should be ‘delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!’
By Heather Caygle, Rebecca Morin, John Bresnahan, Politico, January 23, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said she would not pass a resolution allowing President Donald Trump to deliver his State of the Union address from the House chamber until the government reopens, rebuffing the president’s statement that he would move forward with the speech regardless.
“I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened,” Pelosi wrote to Trump is the latest volley between the two leaders.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request to delay his State of the Union speech until after the government shutdown ends, intensifying the brinkmanship between the two leaders that has become a centerpiece of the ongoing funding impasse.
Trump said he fully intends to give the annual address in the House on Jan. 29 as was originally planned, a defiant rebuttal to Pelosi’s letter last week suggesting the president postpone the speech — or deliver it in writing — until the funding stalemate was resolved.
“I look forward to seeing you on the evening on January 29th in the Chamber of the House of Representatives,” Trump wrote in the letter, his first official response to Pelosi’s missive last week. “It would be so very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!”
“Stay tuned, that is my message to all of you,” Pelosi told reporters Wednesday after Trump released the letter.
Technically Trump cannot give the State of the Union in the House without Pelosi’s consent. While she has yet to rescind the invitation she sent in early January — her letter last week was only a strong suggestion he move the date — both the House and Senate have to adopt a joint resolution before the speech can take place. While typically just a formality, Pelosi can block the resolution and Trump in the process.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy introduced a resolution after Trump’s letter to hold the State of the Union Jan. 29.
“I don’t think anybody in America would agree with that position,” McCarthy said when asked what if he would do if Pelosi officially rescinded the invitation.
Two White House officials said they believe they have the upper hand in the State of the Union standoff because Pelosi hasn’t been able to definitively show that the shutdown has prevented the government from securing the event. As the White House officials see it, Pelosi will either buckle and allow Trump to speak or be forced to publicly un-invite him. Trump wins in either scenario, the officials argued, insisting that barring him from giving the speech would be seen as obviously political and petty.
White House aides have encouraged the president to continue fighting to hold the speech in the House chamber because backing off would make it look like he gave in. But they’re also already making contingencies for a speech outside of Washington, according to one of the White House officials, if he’s not able to give the speech in Congress. And outside advisers think an alternative speech outside of the beltway would resonate with his base.
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway underscored the president’s strategy on Wednesday after he sent the letter.
“I think it would be remarkably petty of the speaker to disinvite the president of the United States to address the nation that they both serve at the highest level,” Conway said on Fox News.
The letter from Trump is just the latest tit-for-tat in a public sparring match that has intensified between Pelosi and the president over the last week. First Pelosi surprised Trump by sending the letter suggesting he delay the State of the Union. Trump responded by canceling Pelosi’s planned trip to Afghanistan at the last minute, about an hour before she and other Democrats were set to depart.
Before Trump sent his letter Wednesday, Pelosi was discouraging fellow Democrats from flying out family members or other guests to the speech, without tipping her hand as to whether she was officially canceling the event.
“I wouldn’t make a plans for family to come to the State of the Union, even if it happens,” she told lawmakers in the closed-door meeting, according to a source in the room.
“I would say, without any inference to be drawn from it as to whether I think he’s coming or not, government should still be open…I wouldn’t spend any money to come out here.”
In her letter last week, Pelosi cited the shutdown — now the longest ever in its 33rd day — as the reason to postpone Trump’s speech, saying the stalemate has hobbled both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security and could harm the security planning process.
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But on Wednesday, Trump rejected Pelosi’s explanation and said he has been contacted by DHS and Secret Service officials who said “there would be absolutely no problem regarding security with respect to the event,” something DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen first said last week.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Pelosi’s deputy, also said the speech — which is attended by lawmakers, Cabinet secretaries and many Supreme Court justices — could go forward at the last minute if Pelosi and Trump reached an agreement to do so.
“The Capitol police and the sergeant at arms has assured us we’ll be fully prepared if in fact there is a State of the Union address on the 29th,” Hoyer said, adding that a joint resolution could be passed the day of the address if necessary. “The speaker and the president are the two parties here that need to speak to it.”
Later, after the Trump’s letter was made public, Hoyer refused to comment further.
“You need to talk to the speaker,” he told reporters repeatedly.
The White House and Democratic leaders have failed to make any meaningful headway in ending the shutdown. Trump has refused to back down from his demand for $5.7 billion for border wall funds.
Democrats have so far not budged in their refusal to appropriate the funds but House Democratic leaders are weighing a counteroffer to Trump that would likely include several billions of dollars for border security without funding the wall.
The president’s letter comes several days after he tweeted that “there are so many options” to still deliver a State of the Union address. However, he also teased that he may follow through on Pelosi’s initial invitation to deliver the address on Capitol Hill.
“While a contract is a contract, I’ll get back to you soon!” Trump tweeted Sunday.
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46 Comments
5 years ago
It is tradition for the Speaker of the House to formally invite the President to deliver the SOTU.
It’s been written up Piglosi has asked the sergeant-at-arms to deny Trump access. Who will he obey?
Either way it is a win win for Trump and shows how insane the DEMS have become.
Expect record ratings for the address. He could always have it in the Senate Chambers.
How GALLING of Piglosi to feign concern about SECURITY when they want our borders OPEN.
Congress still has to pass a resolution confirming the State of the Union invitation, but Trump has made it clear that he will be there unless he is officially uninvited by Speaker Piglosi.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Seriously? What kind of filthy pig would block the President from speaking. Can you imagine the riots in the streets, if they had done that to the last occupier of the White House. We’d STILL be hearing about it. “Piglosi” cares NOTHING about the wall, the American people, border security, etc. It’s all EGO with that disgusting pig!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The article states “between two leaders”…….there is only one leader, and that is the one the people voted for . . . . President Trump. The only people who voted for Speaker nasty piglosi are those who live in her district, and that ain’t me.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Good that Trump is starting to man up against the Wicked Witch of the East.
5 years ago
Donald Trump- a modern day true hero. He is the “Schindler of the true Americans”. While evil is is rising up from many directions, here he is, our very unexpected American hero , who will one day be seen as a legendary president.
5 years ago
Reply to
MitchHill
Well, he’s not so smart and brave after all, is he? He’s backed off to the horrible bag Nancy Pelosi – who is now laughing her head off and the Democrats are aglow with joy. PATHETIC! What a horrible disappointment. Now let’s see if he backs off on the wall.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
I AM NOTTT gonna fall prey to thinking od th9ings like that!! I would have done the same thing: AT LEAST TRY TO GET ALONG WITH THA “PIG”!! By doing things the w3ay he did::
“”POTUS DUMPED ALLL THE PUBLIC’S OPINIONS, DOUBTS, & FUTURE VOTER CHOICES ON HER, TO FOCUS ON *** “THA PIG”=PIGLOS’s **** BUTT!!
BRILLIANT!!
SHE IS LOOKING EXACTLY LIKE THE STUPID, ANTI-AMERICAN WHORE, SHE TRULY IS:: TO ALL!!!I
MADE HER LOOK LIKE A FOOL & REVEAL HER TRUE INNER MOTIVES OF BEING A:::
**** SELFISH, GREEDY, POWER HUNGRY, AMERICAN TAXPAYER ABUSING, & STUPID BITCH
TO ALLL AMERICANS EYES!! DID IT PUBLICLY, TOO!!
EVEN THE DEMONCRAP SUPPORTING FOOLS OUT THERE MUST BE HAVING DOUBTS NOW!!
VERY DAMN SMARTTTTT POLITICAL MOVE: POTUS!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
Blackmagikwolf Richardson
Don’t like the language necessarily, but the thoughts are right on. Tankx!
5 years ago
Reply to
Blackmagikwolf Richardson
Don’t like the language necessarily, but the thoughts are right on. Tankx!
5 years ago
Reply to
Blackmagikwolf Richardson
I hope you are right because I truly loathe Pelosi. How the devil did other Democrats gets to stupid as to put her in that role.
5 years ago
Freedom for the Anti-mosque protester jailed in Florida for 15 years.
& away with the censorship.
Saudi Arabia censors people & owns the biggest share of Twitter.
Facebook, Wikipedia, schools -No More Censorship.
& no more money & weapons to Saudi Arabia, Muhammadist Nigeria, Fatah, Afghanistan, Pakistan & other Muhammadist organisations.
No more Mosque-loudspeakers & no more Mosques.
No more declitorisations & no more independent courts that support declitorization, blasphemy law & other unjust Muhammad-law values.
We need a global government that protects the ethical values of truth, justice, love, American English, friendliness, ecology, human rights, global imperialism, freedom from religion & to atheism, healthy food (see DrAxe.com), cultivation of ecological best quality basics, support for self-realisation & a ban on incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law, war & tyranny worldwide.
5 years ago
The SOTU is going to be excellent. Folks that only know what Lames say will hear for first time of the good stuff.
5 years ago
Reply to
robert v g
It could be dangerous for Trump to walk straight in to the House.
Pelosi and the Democrats must be frisked once and the RINO’s twice beforehand.
5 years ago
The 29th is a week away. I think Trump knows Nancy and a bunch of other House members will be in Gitmo.
5 years ago
This is a president who plays by the rules, even though he is having a few curve balls thrown at him…. However, I believe that POTUS will come out as the victor in this ridiculous stand off… He is sticking by his word, and I believe Pelosi is getting a lot of flak from the more reasonable ( if that’s possible) Democrats
5 years ago
Reply to
Lynn D
Nancy Pelosi, a true bag of trash, represents the hate-filled and intolerant left. Worst of all, she is as dumb as a rock, her own words testament to a foggy and quite stupid mind, yet this person, this utter fool, is who the Democrats chose as their Speaker of the House. Just listen to her speak. This whole grubby scene is a pathetic sight for the world abroad to behold. America now a hate-filled society and largely made so by the liberal/left.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
If she is the best they can field for speaker of the house, then their party is in deep schidt.. WE HOPE
5 years ago
It was reported late Wednesday that there will be no SOTU address, alternative or otherwise. Like it or not, the address to Congress and the nation an American institution, besides being required by the Constitution.
What Trump, in effect, has done is to paint Pelosi as a political saboteur and the label will stick since she is so stupid, clumsy, and ham-fisted that she can’t get out of her own way.
5 years ago
Reply to
wildknives
WTF? Where else do you think the SOTU requirement comes from?
I’ll save you the trouble of looking up the key part of the Miranda warning, “You have the right to remain silent”.
5 years ago
Reply to
wildknives
Article 2, Section 3 of the US Constitution says: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;”
5 years ago
All what they are doing to Trump should have been done to their dear Negro – the sodomite one. The one who threw a baseball like a gurl. The one that rides a bike like a phag on wheels. The one that attracted flies THAT ONE!
He behaved like a tyrant and got a pass. Trump follows the Constitution and they give him no quarter. Time to arrest Demoncraps for treason and betrayal. But they are never arrested. Even when caught red-handed.
Hillaryous is till free. So is Dying Frankenstein and Wassrename. Ruth Ginsburg should have been asked to leave the Supine Court when she told that foreign guy you shouldn’t make a Constitution like the United States. Which to me was blasphemy for someone on the Supine Court to say that since they are suppose to interpret the Constitution.
All except for the fatherless moron sodomite Negro are women. Yahuah send you women and children (tilly Negro) to rule you when you sin.
5 years ago
Baloney. Pelosi is running scared. You and I both know that when the address is given she will be seated directly behind him in her role as Speaker and he will take full advantage of the situation. You know it, I know it, and so does she.
5 years ago
I don’t get her being able to block him. He has the Constitution behind him on this. Look up Article 2 sec.3 it states it quite plainly that he has the right to open either House or Senate for SOTU address.
5 years ago
Article 2 sec.3.of the Constitution, look it up.
5 years ago
because thats exactly what it is petty and political – and thats exactly what pukosi and schumer are –
5 years ago
I love it! Go for it, Mr. President!
5 years ago
President Trump just announced he will delay SOTU – BIG MISTAKE!! I don’t care if POTUS delivers the State of the Union address from the Oval office!! This is a power play by Nancy Pelosi to show America that she has more power than POTUS. Pelosi is openly challenging the President and he should do what he does best – not allow himself to be bullied – that is why he was elected in the first place.
5 years ago
go for it Mr. President
5 years ago
Trump is our greatest president since our first president because he brings a lifetime of experience in determined and smart negotiating and MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION, which, after the chaos and confusion of the drug-addicted witch doctor and the previous two decades of deep state corruption, seems like a miraculous cure from a terminal illness.
5 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
C’mon. Andy Jackson, Abe Lincoln, and Teddy R were in there somewhere.
5 years ago
Trump has surrender to Pelosi and will not give state of union on time. Don’t listen to his words look for actions. He is a deep state operative. Check out actions in Venezuela then go back to Smedley Butler speech from 1930’s. We had such hope.
5 years ago
I’ll be one of the thousands tuning in from the UK – you lucky people!
Two terms, 2nd Amendment, two scoops and all the other twos.
5 years ago
Stay strong President Trump! We the people love you for it. Praise God that you are the POTUS. Every day that passes reveals the complete lack of character and utter contempt for the American people that Pelosi has. One question. I read that Pelosi is worth $100,000,000.00. If that is correct, where did all that money come from?
5 years ago
Ha! Overtake by events.
5 years ago
…Ms.Pelosi – You are merely the ‘Speaker”‘ in the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES – not the HEAD of the government.
You don’t determine WHEN, WHERE or IF, THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES gives the ‘STATE OF THE UNION” address.
The clue is in the word REPRESENTATIVES – it means the politicians are THE REPRESENTATIVES of the PEOPLE!
Did you GET THAT Ms. Pelosi? IT’s THE PEOPLE’s HOUSE !!!
5 years ago
be prepared to arrest the muslims in there if they attack!
