Democrats call for Twitter, Facebook to take down Pelosi video posted by Trump. The five-minute video, which was pinned to the top of Trump's Twitter feed on Friday, shows Pelosi ripping up Trump's State of the Union speech as he reunites a military family, announces a scholarship award for a young girl and awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh. "Powerful American stories ripped to shreds by Nancy Pelosi," reads the text at the top of the video.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had already pre-ripped pages of President Donald Trumps State of the Union speech before standing and ripping the pages apart when the president concluded his speech. The Trump War Room Twitter account posted footage of the California lawmaker making small tears to the speech around 9:49 p.m. as Trump was talking about “new cures for childhood cancer” and about to address conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. Then, at 10:24 p.m., Pelosi stood and ripped the entire speech in half.
Any debate about whether the House Speaker’s decision was premeditated or done in the heat of the moment seemed settled after Red State editor Brandon Morse posted a video of Pelosi “testing to see if she could rip the speech before the speech even started.”
Although the Democratic House Speaker was harshly criticized for ripping up the speech in such a public fashion, she later defended her actions to Fox News as “the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.”
“I tore it up,” she said. “I was trying to find one page with truth on it. I couldn’t.”
