House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is back making a fool of herself at this year’s State of the Union address after a bizarre applause during President Joe Biden’s speech on Tuesday.
Pelosi awkwardly stood up and rubbed her hands together while Biden was discussing the infamous, toxic “burn pits” from the Iraq War that gave many soldiers health-related issues.
Looks like the Joker on meth. https://t.co/7TW6aZa8s9
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“I’ve always believed that we have a sacred obligation to equip all those we send to war and care for them and their families when they come home,” the president said, adding that the White House is “providing assistance with job training and housing, and now helping lower-income veterans get VA care debt-free.”
People were quick to point out Pelosi’s strange moment on social media.
“What the hell is this reaction from Nancy Pelosi to Biden talking about soldiers breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits?” tweeted one user.
“Looks like the Joker on meth,” joked another user, while Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics called the moment “bizarre.”
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana commented on the widely circulated video as well, saying, “So weird.”
Biden continued discussing the horrific burn pits, saying: “Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan faced many dangers. One was stationed at bases and breathing in toxic smoke from ‘burn pits’ that incinerated wastes of war—medical and hazard material, jet fuel, and more.”
According to Rice University, the burn pits in Iraq caused “cancer, leukemia, respiratory illnesses, and other chronic conditions” to soldiers. It shares the same deadly chemicals like the ones used in the Vietnam War.
“Burn pits are massive holes backhoed in the ground to dispose of waste/garbage on U.S. military bases. One of the largest burn pits – at Joint-Base Balad in Iraq – spanned 10 acres. Smaller metal barrels are used at smaller platoons. The danger, Poisson said, is what is being burnt in them,” wrote Gita Brown on the university website.
With that in mind, it’s weird to see Pelosi being gleeful about the discussion of burn pits. Either she was not listening to the president’s speech or the idea of soldiers getting cancer from burn pits actually excites her.
