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Nancy Pelosi left startled by 'let's go Brandon' chant by protester during California speech

The sudden interruption startled the speaker of the House as she stood at the podium stammering on her words

During an infrastructure event in San Francisco on Monday, December 20, Nancy Pelosi was taken aback after she was interrupted as a protestor shouted 'Let's Go Brandon' in the middle of her speech. The speaker of the House, 81, was speaking on behalf of President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill.

An unidentified male protester interrupted the speech of the California representative. The protester shouted 'Let's Go Brandon!' and 'USA! USA!' as he passed through the area. The sudden interruption startled the Democratic Speaker of the House as she stood at the podium stammering on her words. She next handed the stand over to Rep Mark DeSaulnier who jokingly remarked "I hope he's not one of my constituents."

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As a clip of Pelosi getting flustered went viral on Twitter, poeple started to troll the Speaker. "She can’t get 'visibly upset' enough!" one of them said, while another noted, "People speak the truth and those who get irritated prove their guilt." A third commented, "Love it!!! She is evil!!" The next remarked, "Love it! Maybe us 'Americans' have a chance to survive these idiots." A commenter tweeted, "I love it she need to be drowned out more," One more stated, "Nancy Fluzzy getting what one in her shoes deserves !!!" Another added, "She's politicking exile on vacation then she deserves what she gets." A person reacts with, "The Speaker of the House can be rattled by ONE heckler. Don’t let them have the illusion of power that they keep trying to sell you."

How did the phrase 'Let's Go Brandon' become famous?

The phrase “Let’s go Brandon!” went viral after NBC Sports reporter Kelli Stavast disingenuously claimed on camera that the crowd at a NASCAR race was yelling “Let’s go, Brandon!” when they were actually chanting “F**k Joe Biden!” After the video footage of the chant was analyzed later, her claims were disproved and the phrase has ever since become synonymous with anti-Biden boos.

After the phrase went viral, Christian rapper Bryson Gray adopted it into a song called 'Let’s Go, Brandon,' that went to number one on Apple iTunes, and only recently has been bumped off the top spot of the music charts by singer Adele. The self-proclaimed “most censored rapper in America” has been criticized over the song for its rhetoric on the pandemic response, President Joe Biden, and the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. YouTube has censored the song claiming it violates their policies over medical misinformation. Ironically, Gray raps in the first verse, “if you ask questions ’bout the vax, then they gonna ban us.”

In early November, NASCAR President Steve Phelps said the franchise did not want to be associated with political issues or the controversial phrase. He made clear NASCAR planned to take legal action against anyone or any entity tying the phrase to the franchise’s trademarked logo and merchandise. His warning came after retired MLB star Lenny Dykstra posted a photo of a man having breakfast at a New Jersey hotel dressed in a black t-shirt emblazoned with “Let’s Go, Brandon” that included NASCAR’s trademarked colored bars.

“We will pursue whoever (is using logos) and get that stuff,” Phelps said during a press conference at Phoenix Raceway. “That’s not OK. It’s not OK that you’re using our trademarks illegally, regardless of whether we agree with what the position is. It’s an unfortunate situation and I feel for Brandon, I feel for Kelli,” Phelps said of the incident at Talladega Superspeedway that got the entire Let’s Go, Brandon meme started. “I think, unfortunately, it speaks to the state of where we are as a country. We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the left or the right.”