A fawning interview featuring Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) included ample spin on key moments under the Trump administration, including Jan. 6 and her “nasty” reaction to a State of the Union.
On the eve of the former House speaker’s final year in Congress after four decades, ABC’s Jonathan Karl hosted the San Francisco-based lawmaker on “This Week.” Along with taking another crack at propping up a narrative of blame regarding the breach of the U.S. Capitol in 2021, she sought to defend her move nearly a year earlier, claiming she “didn’t intend” to tear up President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union speech.
“People like the tearing up of the speech,” Pelosi told Karl, framing her behavior as positive. “I didn’t intend to go to the speech to tear it up. I just, the first part of it, I tore a page because he was lying. And then the next page, then the next page. I thought it was a manifesto of lies all throughout, so I better just tear up the whole speech. Now, the speeches are on strong paper, so you have to do it a few times to get it done. But I had no intention of doing that. I thought my staff was going to die.”
Five years later and Crazy Nancy Pelosi is still bragging about her temper tantrum during President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address.
PELOSI: “The speeches are on strong paper… so you have a do it a few times.”
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 28, 2025
By contrast, the administration responded to her action at the time by indicating “her legacy” was actually to show disrespect to those honored that evening including a surviving Tuskegee Airman, a child born prematurely at 21 weeks, a family reunion for a service member, as well as those mourning the loss of Rocky Jones, a man killed at a gas station by an illegal alien, and Kayla Mueller, an American human rights activist who was killed after being taken prisoner by ISIS under then-President Barack Obama’s administration.
“They did me a favor,” insisted Pelosi when Karl indicated the White House had released a particular image of her pointing at Trump and referred to her as “crazy.”
Claiming that she gets requests to sign that image, the retiring congresswoman also insisted, “You know what I’m saying when I go out the door? I’m leaving here because I’ve had it with you, Mr. President. With you, all roads lead to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”
On Jan. 6, Karl asked, “We see what is happening at the Capitol. What is going through your head?”
“Well, it was clear that the president of the United States had incited an insurrection. And we begged him to send the National Guard,” Pelosi insisted, reasserting the left’s angle on events. “Typical of him, he never represents the truth. He said, ‘I was gonna send it, but they didn’t want it.’ Get out of here. Even [Kentucky Sen.] Mitch McConnell was on the phone with us, saying, ‘Get them here right away.’ But they never sent them.”
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi calls the Jan. 6 attack “absolutely” the darkest day of her speakership: “The sorrow of it also springs from the fact that this president is trying to rewrite history, have a different narrative of what happened that day.” https://t.co/5TXWbx2X1a pic.twitter.com/MlBEe4D46E
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 28, 2025
“January 6 was really sad of itself. But, the sorrow of it also springs from the fact that this president is trying to rewrite history, have a different narrative of what happened that day. And what I saw that day was these people coming, and they were gonna have a bullet in my f-word head, and they were going to hang a noose for the vice president of the United States …” she continued, making note of the outlier actions of those who’d entered the Capitol.
“What happened that day was horrible. It was an assault on the Capitol, the symbol of democracy to the world. It was an assault on the Congress, the day we honored our responsibility under the Constitution to certify the Electoral College, who was elected president, as an assault on the Constitution of the United States. It was horrible,” added Pelosi before Karl asked, “Has he paid a price for it?”
“No,” she replied, “he’s President of the United States now. But history will — he’ll pay a price in history.”
Meanwhile, in June, a video was released by the Committee House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight that featured Pelosi taking responsibility on the day of the Capitol breach for not having the National Guard “prepared for more.”
“We have responsibility, Terri,” she was heard telling her Chief of Staff, Terri McCullough. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there. And we should have.”
Pelosi undermines key aspect of sham J6 case against Trump in shock video https://t.co/kbrK8miL8C
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) June 11, 2024
Of course, as Democrats were stuck trying to salvage the narrative on rising health insurance costs resulting from Obama’s signature piece of legislation, Pelosi gleefully picked up the legacy of Obamacare as what she wished to be remembered for, saying, “I’m very proud of the Affordable Care Act. I think it just made a big change in terms of what working families need for their health and their financial health. We will continue to have that fight. It’s not a value that is shared with the Republicans. The healthcare bill was a way of not only meeting health needs but the national needs of families. If I were to be remembered for one thing, it’s the Affordable Care Act.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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