Trump Paul Pelosi Attack Joke
🟠 Erosion of Democratic Norms ·
Oct 2022 / Sep 2024
Summary
In October 2022, a right-wing conspiracy theorist broke into the Pelosi family home and struck 82-year-old Paul Pelosi three times on the head with a hammer, fracturing his skull. Within days, Trump Jr. shared a mock ‘Paul Pelosi Halloween costume’ on social media. In September 2024, Trump joked about the attack to the Fraternal Order of Police: ‘Nancy Pelosi has a big wall around her house. Of course, it didn’t help too much with the problems she had, did it?’ Nancy Pelosi called it ‘sick.’ The contrast was widely noted: two months earlier, Democratic officials had unanimously condemned Trump’s own near-assassination without jokes or mockery, and President Biden subsequently increased Trump’s security detail.
Key Figures
Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden
Institutions Involved
Sources
- What the GOP Response to the Paul Pelosi Attack Reveals About Our Miserable Political Discourse
- Pelosi - Trump joking about attack on her husband ‘sick’