You won’t find a more committed and passionate opponent of president Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. than Nancy Pelosi (witness yesterday’s blowup at the White House, in which the president walked out of a meeting on infrastructure over Pelosi’s earlier comments about a Trump-ordered coverup).
The two-time Speaker of the House and long-time politician from liberal San Francisco is the opposite of the president in many ways. Whereas Trump takes pride in being the bull in the china shop, Pelosi is a highly-calculating politician who thinks long and hard before she settles on a course of action.
Trump is a nationalist (some would say quasi-nativist) at heart; Pelosi, a representative of the “globalist” camp the president and his supporters complain about.
Trump likes to improvise in front of the nation and treat his official White House events as campaign rallies; Pelosi’s pressers are generally boring and highly-scripted, talking points at the ready.
The biggest difference between the two titans, however, is experience.
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