Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) suffered a brain freeze just moments after knocking Donald Trump's mental acuity in a media interview.
"Crazy Nancy" seized the opportunity to raise questions about Trump's health after he appeared to briefly confuse the former House Speaker with Nikki Haley at a rally.
Trump was campaigning against Haley in New Hampshire when he brought up the theory that Pelosi intentionally left the Capitol unguarded on January 6th in order to blame Trump for the attack.
However, Trump appeared to get Pelosi confused with his Republican rival, Nikki Haley.
“Nikki Haley is in charge of security — we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people," Trump said.
Democrats welcomed the opportunity to deflect from President Biden's almost daily episodes, which have cast a dark cloud over his re-election bid.
In an interview with Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show - a notorious hotbed of anti-Trump conspiracy theories - Pelosi mocked Trump's "cognitive disorders" before mixing up Trump and President Biden.
"I am not going to spend too much time on Donald Trump's cognitive disorders," Pelosi said.
"He tried to say that Nikki Haley did not allow the National Guard to come but it was Nancy Pelosi. It was nobody. It was Joe...," Pelosi said.
"It was Donald Trump," she added.
Trump and Pelosi traded blows frequently during Trump's four years in the White House.
"Crazy Nancy," as Trump called her, notoriously shredded Trump's State of the Union speech in an infamously unhinged episode.
Nikki Haley is Trump's last remaining challenger for the GOP presidential nomination, although her path forward is unclear after she lost to Trump by double digits in New Hampshire. Trump has labeled Haley "Birdbrain" and a profiteering "globalist."
At a recent rally in New Hampshire, Trump said he "aced" a mental exam.
“I took a physical and I passed with flying colors,” he said. “And I took a cognitive exam. I said ‘Doctor, give me anything you want, I want to take it.’”
Biden has never taken a cognitive exam since entering the White House, despite widespread doubts about his mental fitness.
Polls show that voters are far more concerned about Biden's mental acuity than Trump's, despite the attempts of Democrats to equate the two.
