In her upcoming memoir, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi describes some of the ways former President Donald Trump used to drive her nuts. By doing things like calling her in the middle of the night. Well, it’s been reported time and again that Trump is a night owl who relies on little sleep. He’s also an inconsiderate jerk, so how is this in any way unusual?
Indeed, in her book, The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of The House, Pelosi spills plenty of details on the ex-president — including his habit of calling her late at night, Ok! reports.
In her memoir, she also discusses the January 6 Capitol riots, writing that she’d already seen evidence of his “mental imbalance” up close by the time the tragedy occurred.
“His denial and then delays when the Covid pandemic struck, his penchant for repeatedly stomping out of meetings, his foul mouth, his pounding on tables, his temper tantrums, his disrespect for our nation’s patriots, and his total separation from reality and actual events,” she explained. “His repeated, ridiculous insistence that he was the greatest of all time.”
Pelosi doesn’t mince words and in her years as House Speaker, not much slipped by her. So it was “clear to me from the start that he was an imposter — and that on some level, he knew it,” she said. At one point she was asked how she could stay so calm on January 6, 2021. She responded that she was already “deeply aware of how dangerous Donald Trump was.”
“He continues to be dangerous,” she noted. “If his family and staff truly understood his disregard for both the fundamentals of the law and for basic rules, and if they had reckoned with his personal instability over not winning the [2020] election, they should have staged an intervention. Whether because of willful blindness, money, prestige, or greed, they didn’t — and America has paid a steep price.”
Indeed. These people dropped the ball. On us and now the country is perhaps as deeply divided as it has ever been. I’m no expert but the racism and outright fascism now being displayed by so many people (most of whom are Trump supporters) is deeply troubling and a warning of potentially dire times to come.
The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House is scheduled for release on Tuesday, August 6.