House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is coming under fire on social media for comments she made about her “connection” with China during a press conference Thursday.
Pelosi said she has always had a special connection to China because of a childhood memory.
“When I was a little girl, I was told on the beach that if I dug a hole deep enough, we’d get to China, so we’ve always felt a connection there,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi made the comments during a trip to the Indo-Pacific.
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“We’re really led by jerks,” Outkick founder Clay Travis said.
“LOL what?” said Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA.
“Make sure we look like idiots to the rest of the world,” said one Twitter user.
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“Are you telling me this person was our best choice to visit Taiwan?” said another Twitter user.
Pelosi made the Indo-Pacific trip last week and stopped in Taiwan on Tuesday, despite multiple threats from China advising her not to visit the island.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) shakes hands with Hiroyuki Hosoda, Speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, during a meeting in Tokyo. Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/Afp/AFP via Getty Images
“Our visit is one of several congressional delegations to Taiwan, and in no way contradicts longstanding U.S. policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the U.S.-China Joint Communiqués, and the six insurance,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.”
Timothy HJ Nerozzi of Fox News contributed to this report.