From left: Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley.Photo: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty; ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty
The journalists — who co-authored the new book,TheDivider:TrumpintheWhiteHouse,2017-2021— write that Trump “harshly criticized women for their looks, telling visitors that SpeakerNancy Pelosiwas an example of why women should be careful about plastic surgery.”
The authors write that Trump told others he would not pick his own United Nations AmbassadorNikki Haleyas a future running mate because she had a “complexion problem.”
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Haley, 50, is the former governor of South Carolina and served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 through the end of December 2018.
While she has occasionally pushed back on Trump’s harsh rhetoric in the past, at other times, shehas embraced it, saying in August 2020 that he “tells the world what it needs to hear” and that “he knows that political correctness and cancel culture are dangerous and just plain wrong.”
Pelosi, meanwhile, is a well-documented critic of the former president, and called him “deranged, unhinged, dangerous” in the wake of theJan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
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