Pelosi refers to Trump in last press conference as speaker: ‘What’s-his-name’

During her last weekly press conference as House speaker on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi spoke about having the roles of both speaker and minority leader during the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and referred to Trump as “what’s-his-name.”

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NANCY PELOSI: The hardest thing that I had to do, since you're asking this question, I was Speaker and Minority Leader under President Bush, under President Obama, under what's-his-name, and just Speaker under President Biden. But three different presidents, two different roles. The hardest thing that I had to do in all of the-- say let's just talk about the three.

The hardest thing that I had to do-- and I say this in friendship and in love and all the rest of that-- is when we had a Democratic president and we were in the majority-- minority, and we were in the minority, as Minority Leader to sustain a presidential veto because the Republicans would roll out stuff that sounded like a chocolate sundae, but it's more like doggy doo. But it looked good, and it played well in districts. And people would say, oh, this is good.

No, no, it ain't good. It's terrible. It undermines the Affordable Care Act. We have to sustain the presidential veto. This is not a casual vote. This is not a casual vote. So I'd rather be writing the Affordable Care Act or any other massive legislation than to have to go to my members and say, my friend, in friendship, I really need your vote to sustain the president's veto. That was the hardest.