Who's your mommy, Trump?
by digby
That's the Speaker's new twitter page. Lol.
The White House released the picture yesterday thinking that it said something bad about Nancy Pelosi.
She had said after the meeting that Trump had a "meltdown" and reports were that he'd called her a third rate politician and babble inanely about communists etc. She walked out and rightly so.
Later:
As Michaelangelo Signoreli tweeted:
Seriously, Trump's reaction is the most glaring example of "I know you are but what am I" that I have ever seen in my life.
Via Crooks and Liars, here's Lawrence O'Donnell paying tribute last night:
Well, you've never seen anything like it and I've never seen anything like it and I've been in the room where it happened many, many times. But I never saw anyone in that room do what Nancy Pelosi did today when she literally stood up to the President of the United States. And because Donald Trump has the weakest mind in the history of the American presidency, he released the photograph of that moment captured perfectly by a White House photographer.
We would not have that photograph if Donald Trump had not made the profoundly stupid mistake of tweeting it. And that photograph, thanks to Donald Trump, will now become the single-most important and indelible photographic image of the Trump presidency. It tells the story of the Trump presidency better than any other photograph.
Nancy Pelosi immediately placed that photograph on her Twitter page and she will never replace it with a better photograph. It is the perfect portrait of the child president, the Trump face is full of the confusion and fear of a 4-year-old boy being rebuked by an adult in the room full of adults who know he shouldn't be there
50 years from now, schoolchildren studying American history will come upon this photograph and they will instantly know who was in charge in that room. The adult standing and pointing at the pained face across the table. Historians will recognize that when Nancy Pelosi stood up to that president today, she wasn't just standing up for herself and for Congress.
Update
That picture brings another one to mind:
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