I told Trump to PRAY after our wild Oval Office smackdown says Nancy Pelosi

Building a border wall with Mexico is a ‘manhood thing’ for President Donald Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told members of her caucus after the issue blew up an Oval Office meeting Tuesday. 

Pelosi measured up the situation after a wild televised Oval Office argument, with another potential government shutdown looming. 

“It’s like a manhood thing for him. As if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall thing,’ Pelosi told fellow Democrats in a private meeting, the Hill reported.

She made the comments to members of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee just hours after Trump tussled with Democratic leaders over his demand for building the wall.

Both leaders tried to call him on claims that the wall was already under construction. Trump mentioned the wall two dozen times in his opening remarks during the meeting.

‘It’s called “funding the government,” Mr. President,’ responded Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer.  

‘One thing that I do have to say is: Tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of — a lot of wall. When you include the renovation of existing fences and walls, we’ve renovated a tremendous amount and we’ve done a lot of work. In San Diego, we’re building new walls right now,’ Trump said, talking up additional fencing funded under prior appropriations that also paid for increased border security funding. He also dispatched the military to string miles of razor wire.

‘And we’ve — right next to San Diego, we’ve completed a major section of wall and it’s really worked well,’ Trump said. 

 Pelosi told reporters after the meeting she urged President Trump to pray over their latest offer.

Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer addressed reporters on the north lawn of the White House just minutes after their bipartisan meeting with Trump boiled over and Trump even took ownership of a potential shutdown. 

Pelosi and Schumer urged Trump to accept an offer of moving six spending bills but funding homeland security under current limits to avoid a blow-up over Trump’s border wall.  

‘He says ‘We can pass it in the House, right now,’ said Pelosi. He doesn’t have the votes in the House, to pass whatever his agenda is with that wall in it,’ she said.

‘We are telling him, we will keep the government open, with a proposal that Mr. Schumer suggested. Why doesn’t he just think about it? In fact, I asked him to pray over it,’ Pelosi, a Catholic, told reporters.

Pelosi then said that she hoped that message would guide all parties as they negotiated keeping the government open.

‘It had everything to do with [letting] us be prayerful, listen to each other and have an understanding of where people are coming from,’ she said.

She tried to put the president in a prayerful mood by opening up their meeting with a biblical story.

‘I myself though we should open the meeting with a prayer, which I did,’ she told reporters at the Capitol later.    

‘I told him about King Solomon, when he was to become king of the Jews, he prayed to God, he said, ‘How can I ever follow King David?” she said. ‘King David, king of the Jews.’

‘I need you to give me great understanding and wisdom, Lord,’ she recounted. ‘And after he prayed and prayed and prayed, God came to him and said, ‘Solomon, because you did not ask for longevity, great wealth, or vengeance against your enemies, I will give you more wisdom than anyone has ever had.”   

Donald Trump ‘s negotiating session with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer spiraled wildly out of control on Tuesday, with the politicians viciously tearing into the president in plain view of reporters

Despite what may have been a serene beginning to the meeting, it didn’t take long for it to devolve into public bickering. 

The two Democratic leaders unloaded on Trump as they stood before a White House decorated with Christmas wreaths 

Her counterpart, Schumer, is already calling it ‘this Trump shutdown,’ after the president said he wouldn’t blame Democrats if it happens during an angry exchange where both sides talked past each other.  

Trump’s meeting at the White House is with Democratic leaders. Pelosi and Schumer were invited (left); Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarty (right) were not

The Democratic leaders addressed reporters after the Oval Office throw down

‘This temper tantrum that he seems to throw -– will not get him his wall, and it will hurt a lot of people because he will cause a shutdown,’ said Schumer.

‘He admitted he wanted a shutdown. It is hard to believe that he would want that.’

Asked if things were any more productive behind the scenes, Pelosi responded: ‘You want to know who is more productive behind the scenes? I hear some of the reporters saying – well, a Fox reporter saying ‘Why do we not want transparency in this discussion question.’ We don’t want to contradict the president when he is putting forth figures that have no reality … I didn’t want to in front of those people [say] ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about,’ she said. 

During their wild televised back and forth, Pelosi told Trump bluntly: ‘The fact is you do not have the votes in the House.’

Trump angrily told the expected speaker of the House that funding for his wall would pass in ‘two seconds’ in the lower chamber, only it doesn’t matter because it won’t reach the 60-vote threshold in the Senate without Democratic support.

‘Nancy, I do. We need border security,’ he retorted as the televised meeting devolved into utter chaos.

Schumer brought up Trump’s ‘Pinocchio’ score in the Washington Post, telling Trump that he said at least 20 times that he would use a government shut down as a negotiating tool. 

‘We do not want to shut down the government,’ Schumer told him. 

The Democratic leader insisted that Trump would be willing to force the lights off ’cause you can’t get your way.’

‘You just say my way or you shut down the government,’ Schumer exploded.

Furious, the president said that he would shut down the government if they don’t give it to him.

‘You want to put that on me I’ll take it,’ he rebutted as Schumer told him that the last government closure was his fault, too.