HOUSE OF REPS/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…Trump posted on Twitter on Wednesday [10-16-19] night – ‘Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!’ with a photo of Pelosi standing up and pointing at him during the meeting. The Democrats exited the meeting complaining that they were expecting to hear Trump provide details on a plan for dealing with an unfolding ‘crisis’ in Syria but instead were subjected to ‘derogatory’ language from him about congressional Democrats and Democratic former President Barack Obama.”
–Steve Holland, Richard Cowan, “Pelosi, Trump exchange ‘meltdown’ barbs over meeting on U.S. policy in Syria,” Reuters, October 17, 2019 1:25 pm