Pelosi says Trump’s family should stage an intervention

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s family or staff should stage an intervention, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, noting she’s concerned for his wellbeing and that of the country.

“I pray for the president of the United States,” the California Democrat said. “I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country.”

The speaker’s comments came during her weekly news conference as she discussed the president “storming out” of an infrastructure meeting with Democratic leaders Wednesday.

Trump told Pelosi that he doesn’t want to work with Democrats on infrastructure or other legislation until they end their investigations into him.

Pelosi had also offered her prayers for the president after that meeting dissolved, prompting Trump to later tweet, “Nancy, thank you so much for your prayers, I know you truly mean it!”

On Thursday the speaker offered several explanations for Trump’s behavior, one of which was that he was “not up to the task” of presenting Democrats his proposals to pay for a $2 trillion infrastructure package they had agreed to in a previous meeting.

“He obviously was not prepared and so he used some excuse to go out the door,” she said.

Trump had “started sending signals that he might not be ready or interested” the night before the meeting with his letter saying doesn’t want to advance infrastructure package until after Congress votes on the United States — Mexico — Canada Agreement.

“That was a strange juxtaposition,” Pelosi said of the letter.

Trump in a Rose Garden news conference Wednesday claimed he decided not to engage in infrastructure talks after hearing Pelosi accuse him of being engaged in a “cover-up,” which he denied.

Pelosi said that while she’s sure that word “struck a chord,” that’s not the real reason Trump lashed out.

“We’ve been saying coverup for a while,” she said.