DEMS/NANCY PELOSI/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democratic leaders cut short a meeting with Republican President Donald Trump after he had a ‘meltdown’ over a House of Representatives vote condemning his Syria withdrawal and showed no signs of having a plan to deal with a crisis there. Trump called Pelosi a ‘third-rate politician’ and the meeting in the White House deteriorated into a diatribe, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters. Later, in remarks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Pelosi said that Trump actually called her a ‘third-grade’ politician.”
–Steve Holland, Richard Cowan, “Pelosi, Trump exchange ‘meltdown’ barbs over meeting on U.S. policy in Syria,” Reuters, October 16, 2019 1:25 pm