Varney on Trump's State of the Union address: Pelosi scowls while America wins
Pelosi's 'theatrical rip-up performance' shows she's incapable of giving Trump credit for a booming economy
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to sit and watch the president she detests read out his long list of successes, putting her in a difficult position at Trump’s State of the Union address, FOX Business’ Stuart Varney argued in his latest “My Take.”
“Mr. Trump is winning on so many fronts and the speaker is losing, but that does not excuse her behavior,” he said.
The defining moment was when Pelosi ripped up her copy of the president’s speech, a move Varney described as petulance. He added that Pelosi’s actions were mild compared to the “avalanche of criticism” on social media.
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“Later [Pelosi] told Fox News she had ripped up the speech ‘because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.’ What did that mean? I think she knew she had no serious response to the president’s achievements so she had simply engaged in a theatrical tantrum,” Varney said.
Pelosi was rude throughout the speech, according to Varney. When Trump called out legislators for providing taxpayer-funded health care to millions of illegal aliens, she mouthed the words ‘not true,’ he added.
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“But wait, the speaker is from California which has indeed pledged to use tax money for illegals’ health care,” Varney said.
When the president turned to the nation's remarkable economic performance, Pelosi shook her head and rolled her eyes, he noted. Varney then asked if she not believe in the booming economy or does she think she deserves the credit?
“She is incapable of giving any credit to the president who deserves it: Donald J. Trump,” he said.
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At the State of the Union, Speaker Pelosi was stuck behind the president and on the spot, according to Varney.
“She could have had the good grace to do a ‘grin and bear it’ performance, but she detests him and did a scowl, head-shake, eye-roll, theatrical rip-up performance instead. In the court of public opinion, the speaker lost. The president and America won hands down,” Varney concluded.