On Tuesday, during This Week on This Week, host Jonathan Karl sat down with a glassy-eyed—and very possibly highly inebriated—former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The timing alone was telling. ABC chose to run the interview during “Twixmas,” that dead zone between Christmas and New Year’s when most Americans barely know what day it is, let alone tune in for political retrospectives.
Pelosi announced back in early November 2025 that she would not seek another term and would retire at the end of 2026. So Karl apparently decided it was important enough to wax nostalgic about the “first female speaker’s” career—but not important enough to air when people might actually be watching. It was a classic legacy-media move: check the box, praise the icon, and quietly bury the segment when public attention is at its lowest.
That in and of itself is a telling tell.
During the interview, Nancy Pelosi droned on about her rise to power, her iron grip on it for 38 years (does anyone really need to be in Congress that long?) her tired opposition to Donald Trump (yawn), and her carefully curated vision of what her “legacy” is supposed to be.
Pelosi even took a moment to brag – brag, mind you about her now-infamous but extremely partisan and tasteless stunt during the 2020 State of the Union, when she theatrically tore up President Trump’s speech. In Pelosi’s mind, that petulant display wasn’t an embarrassment or a breach of decorum; it was a highlight. A legacy moment.
Pelosi also oozed confidence that Democrats will claw their way back to a House majority in 2026, insisting her party is poised for a comeback despite recent voter repudiation. Ever the queenmaker, she even went ahead and preemptively anointed New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-08) as the next Speaker of the House, confidently declaring that Jeffries “will be ready.”
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“Temu Obama” (Fauxbama, if you’d rather, or Dollar Store Obama) can barely handle his stiff, over-scripted press conferences, let alone wield the Speaker’s gavel. The idea that Hakeem Jeffries is somehow ready to run the House is laughable—but then again, delusion has never stopped Democrats from declaring victory in advance.
One of the most gobsmacking moments of the interview came when Nancy Pelosi and Jonathan Karl revisited January 6, 2021. Pelosi claimed that her daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, just happened to be on hand with her sons to “witness” history when the so-called “insurrection” broke out.
Naturally, Pelosi explained this coincidence by noting that her daughter is a documentary filmmaker—because, as everyone knows, every female filmmaker casually carries an Ultra HD 4K video camera in her purse at all times, just in case history spontaneously erupts.
Pelosi deflected from it this with, “That’s a different story. It’s almost attached to her” – meaning her daughter.
Uh, okay, Nance.
The lies surrounding the J6 faux-insurrection keep unraveling. What actually unfolded looks far more like a color-revolution style operation—engineered to destroy then-former President Donald Trump, smear his supporters, and provide cover to erode basic freedoms like speech and assembly. The architects of the narrative knew it couldn’t withstand scrutiny forever, which is why Alexandra Pelosi stepped in to manufacture a more flattering, revisionist version of events through documentaries like The Insurrectionist Next Door and Pelosi in the House—films that all but canonize her mother for sainthood. (They’re good Catholics, after all.)
But the truth has a way of clawing its way out. With the release of full January 6 footage, filmmakers like Nick Searcy documenting what really happened that day, and mounting evidence that so-called J6 “witnesses” were coached to lie, the entire insurrection narrative has been steadily—and thoroughly—debunked.
None of that seems to faze Nancy Pelosi, who remains “very proud” of her sham January 6 Committee. The committee was “clearly a heavily biased, anti-Trump circus meant solely to derail the President’s previous campaign.” And it failed….big time.
Much of the bitterness that seeps through Pelosi’s interview stems from that reality. After all the money spent, all the lawfare deployed, and all the deception pushed through a compliant media, Trump is once again President of the United States. That kind of failure has to sting—and judging by Pelosi’s tone, it’s burning like chronic acid reflux.
Nevertheless, Pelosi still gushed like a young girl after her first date with the quarterback over her J6 Committee. “The work that they did and with clarity, patriotism, and the rest. They were wonderful. They were wonderful.” Never mind that she broke House protocol and refused to allow the minority GOP leadership choose their own members for the committee; the only two Pelosi would accept – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – went full anti-Trump and now both are ‘retired’ lawmakers.
So what’s the best thing Pelosi did while she spent decades living on the public dole (and, likely, helping hubby Paul pick only the best stocks)? Why, the “UnAffordable” Care Act, AKA Obamacare:
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she hopes to be remembered for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one of the most consequential pieces of health care legislation in American history.
“How do you want to be remembered?” ABC News’s Jonathan Karl asked Pelosi in an interview that aired Tuesday.
“Not so fast, I’m still here,” Pelosi jokingly replied. “Well, I’m very proud of the Affordable Care Act. I think that it was — just made a big change in terms of what working families need for their health and their financial health.”
“We’ll continue to have that fight. It’s not a value that is shared with the Republicans. So, if I were [to be] remembered for one thing, it would be the Affordable Care Act,” she added.
She added: “The healthcare bill was a way of not only meeting health needs, but financial needs of families.” It appears that the combination of hair dye and beauty treatments has finally clouded her judgment. After sixteen years, the shortcomings of the ACA are unmistakably clear, as Democrats vigorously strive to preserve it. Because of Obamacare, an increasing number of families are facing financial ruin due to healthcare expenses.
The Democrats’ determination to maintain Obamacare subsidies will eventually lead to the nation’s financial collapse. It’s an intentional outcome, not an unintended flaw. How an American political party can hate America and Americans so much will baffle me to my grave:
When the conversation turned back to January 6 and President Trump, Nancy Pelosi smugly declared that Donald Trump “will pay a price in history.” Maybe. But so will you, San Fran Nan. So will you:
