Does Nancy Pelosi want to become a meme? | Moira Donegan
The periodic effort to make Pelosi’s image into a symbol of anti-Trump sentiment was on full display at the State of the Union address
Over the course of the first Trump administration, there have been attempts, mostly unsuccessful, to convert Nancy Pelosi into something of a meme, a symbol of liberal anger and feminist defiance. At times, Pelosi herself has seemed oblivious or unaware of these efforts, as when she was photographed wearing sunglasses and a rust-colored coat on her way out of a contentious meeting with the president at the White House, an outfit which some interpreted, to my mind inexplicably, as a symbol of her power. At other times, Pelosi seems to be consciously manipulating these efforts to make her a symbol, as at the end of Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address. When the speech concluded, Pelosi angled her hands toward Trump to clap softly and
