But his Southern border road trip and Livejournal stylings — not to mention his Instagramming of his teeth cleaning — were widely mocked as a lame odyssey of self-discovery. “We are getting crushed!” Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, according to The Times. With her taunt that the president could make his State of the Union address in his own office, Pelosi continued the strategy of denying the attention addict attention. With his cancellation of her trip to Afghanistan, Trump simply underscored that Pelosi has been to our war zones many times while Trump has only been to Iraq once after being shamed into it. Asked if Trump was retaliating after her threat to cancel the State of the Union, Pelosi offered the perfect sly riposte: “I don’t think the president would be that petty, do you?”

Source: New York Times January 19, 2019 19:30 UTC