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Trump's attempt to troll Nancy Pelosi with 'unhinged meltdown' photo backfires as she makes it her Twitter cover

The House Speaker told reporters outside the White House that it was Trump who 'had a meltdown' and called her a 'third-rate' politician

BY KUNAL DEY

UPDATED MAR 3, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fired back at President Donald Trump by updating her Twitter cover photo with an image of herself in a tense exchange with him just hours after he shared the same photo with the caption: "Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown!"

Pelosi's supporters applauded her decision to use the photo—which she updated just hours after storming out of a Wednesday meeting with President Trump—touting it as an example of standing up to a bully.

However, her critics saw it as an example of how the Democrats were fighting with the Trump administration at every turn, Fox News reports.

U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) and House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) brief members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House after a meeting with President Donald Trump October 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

While the meeting was unproductive by all accounts, Senator Chuck Schumer and Pelosi told reporters outside the White House that it was Trump who "had a meltdown" and called the House Speaker either a "third-rate" or a "third-grade" politician.

"I pray for the president all the time, and I tell him that... I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now, we have to pray for his health, because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president," Pelosi said.

Meanwhile, Schumer told reporters they walked out of the meeting when Trump "started calling Speaker Pelosi a third-rate politician."

"He was insulting, particularly to the speaker. She kept her cool completely, but he called her a third-rate politician," Schumer said. "This was not a dialogue, it was sort of a diatribe. A nasty diatribe, not focused on the facts."

U.S. President Donald Trump (2R) argues about border security with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as Vice President Mike Pence sits nearby in the Oval Office on December 11, 2018, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)

As the top Democrats stormed out of the meeting, Trump reportedly remarked saying, "I'll see you at the polls."

The relationship between Pelosi and Trump has steadily deteriorated in the run-up to the 2020 presidential elections.

Most recently, Pelosi slammed President Trump over his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, saying it was an abandonment of the Syrian Kurds.

Furthermore, she initiated a formal impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives after Trump requested Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, his rival in the 2020 presidential elections.