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highplainsdem

(49,124 posts) Fri Jan 25, 2019, 04:32 PM Jan 2019

Pelosi said Dems could plant flowers on border & Trump would say, "I got my wall"

Reports from her lunch briefing with journalists today.

First from John Harwood:

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Pelosi, asked how Trump will handle backdown on reopening government without wall money, gestures toward her office decorations: “we could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.’ “

From Lynn Sweet, a tweet with a photo of the flowers:

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At end of lunch with reporters, @SpeakerPelosi gestured towards these flowers on the table and said of @realDonaldTrump - “We could plant these flowers along the border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall.“