House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still can’t get the name of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim to fame correct.
Pelosi, who turns 79 years old in less than two weeks, suffered brain freezes, repeated words and struggled with the “New Green Deal” with reporters today.
Pelosi began by telling reporters that President Trump and the Prime Minister of Ireland would be visiting the Capitol today in honor of St. Patrick’s Day this weekend.
After suffering a brain freeze, she said the lunch was intended to honor “the beauty of immigration to our country of, uh— people coming from Ireland.”
A jaw problem marred her attempt to say “prescription drugs,” a common occurrence when she speaks about the topic.
Pelosi suffered another brain freeze just moments later in the same answer, and said Democrats intend to move legislation in a “bi-partisan, bi-partisan way.”
In the middle of another statement, she let out a big sigh before continuing. But as she continued, she seemed to be lost while talking off the top of her head, and quickly reverted to her notes.
“Herd— Hurting families and hungry fam— farmers and hungry families by slashing $220 billion from the SNAP food assistance and cutting Agriculture Department budget by almost 15 percent,” she said.
Pelosi tripped over saying “LGBTQ community,” and suffered another brain freeze mid-answer.
The House Speaker said some of the Democrats’ ideas for “climate change” “will be consistent with some of what’s in the— in, uh, the, the Green Deal— New Green Deal?” she said, looking at the reporter for a lifeline.
She again called in the “Green Deal” just moments later.
It wasn’t the first time she botched the socialist plan’s moniker.
During an appearance at The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. last week, Pelosi was asked to comment on the legislation that would overhaul the U.S. economic system.
Pelosi began calling it the “Green Dream.”
“What is it?” she asked, looking at the moderator. “Green New Deal,” she said.
When the Green New Deal was introduced, Pelosi ridiculed it, calling it the “Green Dream.”
“It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” Pelosi said in February. “The Green Dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?”