Donald Trump Calls Nancy Pelosi a 'Crazy B-' at Final Campaign Rally of the 2024 Election

Mar. 15, 2025

During his final rally of the 2024 presidential election, former PresidentDonald Trumphinted at a profane insult against former House SpeakerNancy Pelosi.

“She’s an evil, sick, crazy b-,” Trump said, before cutting himself off.

“It starts with a B," he continued out loud, “but I won’t say it. I want to say it.”

Trump’s remarks occurred at a campaign rally held after midnight on Tuesday, Nov. 5, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

It’snot the first timeon the campaign trail that Trump has used controversial language to refer to his critics. He nicknamed his GOP primary challengerNikki Haley"birdbrain,” and has used several denigrating phrases to describe Harris, including calling her “dumb as a rock” and reportedlycalling her the R-wordat a private dinner with billionaire donors.

Donald Trump, left, and Nancy Pelosi.KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty; John Lamparski/Getty

KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty; John Lamparski/Getty

On Oct. 31, while appearing at Tucker Carlson’s Live Tour, Trump suggested that former Rep.Liz Cheneyface a firing squad.

Trump called Cheney, the daughter of former Vice PresidentDick Cheney, a “war hawk” before saying, “Let’s see how she feels about it … When the guns are trained on her face.”

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Both Cheneys, who are staunch conservatives, have been vocally anti-Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, having gone so far as to endorse Vice President Harris in the 2024 election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gestures at President Donald Trump after his 2019 State of the Union speech.Doug Mills / Pool, via CNP /MediaPunch

Pelosi, thefirst and only female House speaker, is a longtime Trump critic and served as speaker during his last two years in office, when Democrats had control of the House of Representatives.

Violent rhetoric against Pelosi has previously endangered her and her family.

In 2022, a man who has citeda variety of conspiracy theoriesbroke into Pelosi’s San Francisco houselooking for her. Though Pelosi was in Washington, D.C., at the time, the intruder came across her husband andbrutally beat him with a hammer. The attacker is now serving a life sentence in prison.

source: people.com