House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took some heat for showing off her freezer packed with ice cream during the coronavirus crisis.
The California Democrat joined comedian James Corden on his late-night show Monday and showed off how much ice cream is in her freezer in addition to wondering how Trump’s base could still support him after his response to the pandemic.
“I don’t know what I would’ve done if ice cream were not invented,” she said via video conference from her home.
After the interview, she followed up in a tweet, writing: “We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer.”
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We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer. #LateLateShow pic.twitter.com/dqA32d5lU1
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 14, 2020
Many Twitter users reacted negatively to the interview, suggesting it was tone-deaf in light of many people struggling financially during quarantine measures.
“While Nancy Pelosi sits in her ivory tower in San Francisco, eating $13 dollar a pint ice cream out of her $24,000 fridge, she is cheering on Democrats for blocking coronavirus relief aid that has so far been distributed to 1.3 million small businesses that is about to run out,” the Republican National Committee’s rapid response director, Steve Guest, tweeted.
While Nancy Pelosi sits in her ivory tower in San Francisco, eating $13 dollar a pint ice cream out of her $24,000 fridge, she is cheering on Democrats for blocking coronavirus relief aid that has so far been distributed to 1.3 million small businesses that is about to run out. https://t.co/fvGoWSXXC9
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 15, 2020
Others, including some on the Left, echoed those sentiments.
Her two huge refrigerators by themselves cost more than many people make in a year.
It’s so revealing that the politician Dems adore most is one of the richest members of Congress. Pelosi has been so rich for so long that she can’t see how tone-deaf this is. It’s her normal: https://t.co/IxH0tkyWLs
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2020
Her two refrigerators together cost $24,000 for her specialty chocolate ice creams, but she hates the small business owners of America. “Let them eat cake.” https://t.co/6ogIDP4QzT
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 16, 2020
Pelosi has more money than the entire populations of some housing projects in the US. Is showing off your 15 flavor ice cream collection in extremely expensive appliances meant to be reassuring to people fighting 15 bill collectors during a pandemic & struggling to buy food? https://t.co/mn4bvUuEiO
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) April 15, 2020
After today, Small Business workers and employees aren’t going to get a paycheck to feed their families because of the Democrats.
But here’s a video Nancy Pelosi’s team put out of her showcasing a (very fancy) freezer full of ice cream and a house full of chocolate. pic.twitter.com/265mKC7q9v
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) April 15, 2020
Stuff like this is going to cost us the election in November.
— Michael Sayman (@michaelsayman) April 15, 2020
— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) April 15, 2020
You should be ashamed showing off your abundance while so many go hungry.
— Alexandra Halaby (@iskandrah) April 15, 2020
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden also weighed in on Pelosi’s ice cream but took a more positive route of lauding her for “great taste.”
You have great taste, @SpeakerPelosi. https://t.co/96cJJaBHFW
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 14, 2020
