10/18/2019

NANCY PELOSI/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump tweeted a photograph of Speaker Nancy Pelosi rising to storm out of a meeting with him this week in the Cabinet Room, he meant it as an insult, branding her ‘Nervous Nancy’ and saying she had had an ‘unhinged meltdown.’ But the photograph — which depicts Ms. Pelosi, 79, standing and wagging her finger at a scowling Mr. Trump, 73, seated across the table — quickly went viral for an entirely different reason, hailed by progressives as the latest iconic image of Washington’s most powerful woman telling an impetuous president exactly what is what. Ms. Pelosi’s staff rushed to make the picture, which was taken by an official White House photographer, the background of her Twitter profile, as her fans posted it with glee, using hashtags like #PresidentPelosi and #PelosiOwnsTrump.”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Viral Photo Captures Power Dynamic Between Trump and Nancy Pelosi,” The New York Times online, October 18, 2019