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		</div><p>Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, responded to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address by ripping up a copy of his speech.</p>
<p>Democrat Ms Pelosi tore up the pieces of paper after Republican Mr Trump had addressed a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.</p>
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<p>If Mr Trump knew about Ms Pelosi’s actions behind him, he did not react as he left.</p>
<p>Ms Pelosi held up what remained of the address to her family in the gallery, in full view of reporters.</p>
<p>“It was a manifesto of mistruths,” Ms Pelosi told reporters as she left the Capitol.</p>
<p>The ripping was not planned, according to a person close to the Democratic speaker.</p>
<p>Republicans dismissed her display, on the eve of Mr Trump’s acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, as a tantrum.</p>
<p>“She might as well rip up any plans for attracting independent voters,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said.</p>
<figure id="attachment_149016" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149016" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149016" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/38F192DC-DC66-43AC-ABB1-18615A5F3E99.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149016" class="wp-caption-text">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tears her copy of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address</figcaption></figure>
<p>“Pelosi and the Democrats sat on their hands through all of the good news for Americans in that speech.”</p>
<p>“This speech was about American heroes and American workers,” tweeted Steve Scalise, the Republican vote-counter.</p>
<p>“She decided THAT was worth literally tearing apart.”</p>
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<p>Tearing the speech gave Ms Pelosi the last visual word over Mr Trump, who had spoken to the House from a position of strength.</p>
<p>He arrived in the chamber with the full force of the Republican Party behind him.</p>
<p>She is leading a party in the throes of a divisive presidential nomination fight that had botched the kickoff Iowa caucuses only the night before.</p>
<p>The House had impeached Mr Trump on her watch but the Senate was poised to acquit him.</p>
<figure id="attachment_149017" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149017" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149017" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0CC577B8-2D73-46BB-9777-2F59FB55FB7F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149017" class="wp-caption-text">Donald Trump turns after handing copies of his speech to Nancy Pelosi and vice president Mike Pence</figcaption></figure>
<p>From the start, the event was awkward because the history between the two is so icy.</p>
<p>They had not spoken since October, when Ms Pelosi pointed at Mr Trump over a White House conference table, suggested that Russia controls him and walked out.</p>
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<p>Now, Mr Trump was returning to the very chamber where he was impeached, standing before the same Democrats who have called him unfit for office and sought to oust him.</p>
<p>He stepped to the podium and handed navy blue folders containing his speech to Ms Pelosi and vice president Mike Pence.</p>
<p>Photos from that moment show that Mr Trump mistakenly handed Mr Pence’s copy to Ms Pelosi.</p>
<p>The outside reads in gold letters The President of the Senate of the United States, which is Mr Pence’s title.</p>
<p>At that moment, Ms Pelosi extended a hand.</p>
<p>Mr Trump did not acknowledge it, instead turning around to begin his speech.</p>
<p>Ms Pelosi, famous for casting shade, especially on Mr Trump, gave a look.</p>
<p>For 78 minutes, Mr Trump went on to extol a “great American comeback” on his watch, just three years after he took office decrying a land of “American carnage” under his predecessor.</p>
<p>Ms Pelosi read through her copy as he spoke.</p>
<p>Mr Trump bestowed the Medal of Freedom on Rush Limbaugh to raucous applause and a glum reception from House Democrats.</p>
<p>“My fellow Americans, the best is yet to come,” he finished.</p>
<p>Ms Pelosi had already gathered the papers for her big finish, which she later said was “the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative”.</p>
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<p>The moment was a less joyful echo of last year’s State of the Union, when Ms Pelosi stole the show with a smirk-and-clap, eye to eye with Mr Trump.</p>
<p>Then, Democrats were triumphant after election gains that flipped the House from Republican control and put Ms Pelosi back in the speaker’s chair.</p>
<p>That night, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrived on the scene wearing a white caped pantsuit and sat prominently at the centre of the Democratic section.</p>
<p>On Tuesday night, on the eve of Mr Trump’s acquittal, the congresswoman skipped the speech altogether.</p>
<p>“After much deliberation, I have decided that I will not use my presence at a state ceremony to normalise Trump’s lawless conduct &; subversion of the Constitution,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a few hours before the speech.</p>
<p>“None of this is normal, and I will not legitimise it.”</p>
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