Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is releasing a new book about her time working with former president Donald Trump.
And if the first excerpts are any indication of what the rest of the book looks like, it could be a doozy.
According to a report from The San Francisco Chronicle, some of the most bombastic accounts found in Pelosi’s new book titled, “The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House Hardcover,” are aimed directly about the former president.
Here’s a first glance at some of what Pelosi wrote.
“I’ve had a lot of conversations with this man, and at the end of nearly all of them, I think, ‘Either you are stupid, or you think that the rest of us are,’” Pelosi wrote about Trump.
Pelosi’s quote about Trump’s supposed lack of intelligence came from a segment of her memoir in which she recounted their phone conversation just ahead of her announcement that House Democrats were launching an impeachment inquiry into the then-president regarding his phone call to Ukraine.
In the anecdote, Pelosi described how Trump called her to insist that he made a “perfect call” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the Biden family’s business dealings with the country.
In the book, Pelosi wrote that during their conversation, Trump “complained about how this announcement was happening today, the day when he was speaking to the UN General Assembly.”
She then proceeded to call him “stupid.”
Democrats would eventually go on to impeach Trump over charges that he pressured a foreign power to investigate a political opponent, as Biden was a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the time. Trump was not convicted during the process.
In another Trump-related portion of her book, Pelosi described what was going through her mind when she infamously tore up the hard copy of Trump’s State of the Union speech live on-camera in 2020.
A moment that went viral at the time.
“I had intended to mark each page of the speech that contained a lie with a little tear in the paper so I could go back and easily find the pages. But as Trump continued speaking, it was not just one, two, three, or four pages with lies. It was pages and pages of them,” Pelosi wrote.
Four years ago, Pelosi talked to Fox News about ripping up the speech. When asked why she did it, she said, “Because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.” She added, “I tore it up. I was trying to find one page with truth on it. I couldn’t.”
Pelosi’s new book also touches on other consequential moments from her long political career, like when her husband’s skull was fractured by a late-night intruder who broke into their San Francisco home in 2022.
Pelosi wrote about her reaction to the intrusive media coverage of the shocking attack, stating, “It created a terrible and very difficult reaction for many in our family. The reporting was often incorrect and incomplete, and it would grow worse as the hours dragged on. I cannot even begin to describe how painful and devastating it was for them to learn of a vicious assault on their father or grandfather in this way.”