‘Didn’t know that he would be so sensitive’: Pelosi defends calling Trump ‘morbidly obese’

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she did not expect President Trump to be upset that she called him “morbidly obese.”

On Monday night, Pelosi said that people in Trump’s “weight class” should not be taking hydroxychloroquine, following the president’s announcement that he was taking the drug to prevent the coronavirus. In response to her remarks, Trump called Pelosi a “sick woman” with “mental problems” during a press conference on Tuesday.

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