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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched into a wild tirade against President Trump and called him a “vile creature” who she believes is acting like a “king” who does not believe in the U.S. Constitution.
During an off-the-rails press event in Washington, D.C., a furious Pelosi declared that “Donald Trump is the worst president for the children we have ever had. And that is why we must organize to stop his extreme agenda and save our health care.”
This is after she called Trump a “vile creature” and doubled down on her statements in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Pelosi accused President Trump of acting like a king, shredding the US Constitution, and even abolishing the House of Representatives — all of which are untrue and unfounded.
“Our founders did not want a king, so they separated the power. That’s the beauty of the Constitution,” Pelosi said.
“Because he’s the President of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States. In fact, he’s turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court. He’s abolished the House of Representatives, he’s chilled the press. He’s scared people who are in our country legally, but making them – smashing into their cars and the rest,” Pelosi added.
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Pelosi of California saw her wealth increase by at least 2,292% during her 37 years in Congress, much of it through stock trading.
The former House speaker, who announced Thursday that she will retire from Congress in 2027, reported a minimum net worth of $2,675,036 when she first took office and $63,996,050 in 2024, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of her financial disclosures. A separate analysis by Quiver Quantitative places her current net worth at roughly $278.76 million.
Pelosi’s 2024 financial disclosures list her maximum net worth at an estimated $311,443,000. Comparable figures were not reported in 1987, when she first entered Congress, the Daily Caller reported.
At 85, Pelosi’s investment portfolio nearly doubled the growth of the S&P 500 in 2024, according to previous Daily Caller News Foundation reporting. Her financial success has fueled renewed calls to tighten restrictions on stock trading by members of Congress and sparked allegations that she may have benefited from insider knowledge of industry trends.
Pelosi’s office has denied any wrongdoing, stating that she does not personally own or manage stocks and has no prior knowledge of, or involvement in, the transactions. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, is responsible for handling the family’s investments.
The congresswoman voiced her support in July for Republican-backed legislation that would ban stock trading by members of Congress, as well as by presidents and vice presidents — the same day former President Donald Trump publicly called for an investigation into her over potential insider trading.
“We must have strong transparency, robust accountability and tough enforcement for financial conduct in office because the American people deserve confidence that their elected leaders are serving the public interest — not their personal portfolios,” Pelosi said at the time.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced the bill July 30, the Caller reported.
Trump weighed into the debate over Pelosi’s stock trading in 2022.
“She has inside information. It’s not right. It’s not appropriate. It shouldn’t be,” Trump told Breitbart News at the time. “She doesn’t want to discuss that. She wants to discuss other things that shouldn’t be discussed.
“Some of the things that they’re proposing now, like impeaching someone for absolutely no reason for a perfect phone call. You look at that. You look at impeachment—both of them. But you get impeached for a phone call that was like perfecto. So many different things,” he continued.
“I happen to watch her and see her and dealt with her a lot and I think she’s clever in one way and stone-cold crazy. She should not be allowed to do that with the stocks. She should not be allowed to do that. It’s not fair to the rest of this country,” Trump added.
Following Pelosi’s public comments about how lawmakers, like other Americans, should be able to participate in “capitalism” by trading stocks, a bipartisan effort was launched to ban the practice for serving members of Congress.
