Trump, Pelosi Era Could See Fireworks In Washington
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published January 04, 2019 | 11:15 AM
He's in the White House. She's in Congress. For the next two years, Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi will have to work together
Washington, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Jan, 2019 ) :He's in the White House. She's in Congress. For the next two years, Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi will have to work together.
It won't be easy.
Trump, the Republican president, will need to deal with Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, if he wants to improve on what has been a thin list so far of legislative accomplishments.
Pelosi, second in line for the presidency, will need to show that Democrats are ready to govern and have more to offer than just opposition to Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump and Pelosi are separated by more than just their politics.
He is a bombastic New York real estate tycoon who revels in railing against Washington, which he refers to as "The Swamp." She represents liberal San Francisco in Congress and has spent more than three decades negotiating the corridors of power on Capitol Hill.
The 72-year-old Trump is generally quick to slap a derisive nickname on his political opponents but he has not done so with Pelosi, who at 78 is six years his senior.
"I like her," Trump said of Pelosi shortly after she led the Democrats to a decisive victory in the House in the November midterm elections.
"Can you believe it?" Trump said. "I like Nancy Pelosi. I mean, she's tough and she's smart.
"She deserves to be speaker," he said.
Trump's relationship with his Democratic opponents has been stormy since he took office and few expect things to change significantly now that Pelosi has assumed the role of speaker.
"I don't believe he respects her," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. "I believe he fears her.""He has some understanding of power in Washington and how the midterms changed the dynamics," Zelizer told AFP.
"If he senses she is on the defensive or vulnerable, he will unleash his Twitter storm," he said.
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