Nancy Pelosi tore up Donald Trump's State of the Union on live television and smiled.
Now former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is telling America what she said when the cameras were off.
And what Nancy Pelosi said is worse than anything she ever did on the House floor.
She Didn't Just Oppose Them – She Wanted Them Gone
McCarthy sat down with Jesse Watters on Fox News Wednesday night and the story he told wasn't complicated.
Pelosi didn't debate Republicans.
“It’s true of how they would treat us,” he said. “Nancy Pelosi really felt this about us. Like, we shouldn’t be in the room; she would yell at me sometimes. And then, they would put magnetometers to try to deny us from entering, and you couldn’t co-author with us.”
She yelled at McCarthy that Republicans "shouldn't be in the room."
The former Speaker of the House – the woman Democrats held up as a defender of American institutions – looked at her colleagues across the aisle and decided they had no right to be in the same space as her.
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This wasn't a slip of the tongue in a heated debate.
This was her settled, sincere belief.
McCarthy confirmed she installed magnetometers at the House chamber entrance – metal detectors, the kind you walk through at an airport – to stop Republicans from entering the floor to vote.
Republican members of Congress, elected by millions of Americans, had to pass through security checkpoints to do their jobs.
The moment the GOP took the majority in January 2023, those magnetometers came out the same day.
“It was so outrageous that you couldn’t respect the other one, and this is the problem I have, where I think America has failed a little bit when it came to politics,” he said. “We should be able to disagree with somebody without being disrespectful.”
The Graphic That Explains Everything
McCarthy was reacting to a study showing how each party views the other.
Most conservatives see liberals as children – misguided, naive, in need of some life experience.
Most liberals see conservatives as savages – dangerous, immoral, unfit for civilized company.
McCarthy said it immediately: "It is so true."
And Pelosi proved it.
She didn't think Republicans were wrong.
She thought they were subhuman.
There's a word for that, and it isn't political disagreement.
McCarthy said it plainly: "You couldn't co-author with us."
Not wouldn't.
Couldn't.
This Is Why Trump Voters Were Right All Along
Democrats have spent years insisting they're the party of tolerance, inclusion, and democratic norms.
What they mean is tolerance for people who agree with them.
Pelosi proved it on the House floor when she wagged her finger at Republican Congressman Tom Marino and called him a liar during an immigration debate.
She proved it when she installed those magnetometers and fined members thousands of dollars for bypassing them.
She proved it every time she called Republican legislation sinful, cruel, and a betrayal of the American people.
This wasn't a policy disagreement.
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This was a ruling class that had already decided your vote didn't make Republicans legitimate – it just made you dangerous.
McCarthy tried to work with them for years.
“If you noticed in that, the Republicans respect the other side,” he said. “They just thought you were children. We had hope that they would grow up one day. But they treated us and thought of us as monsters and murderers. How would you ever look to that person to be better?”
He finally said out loud what conservatives have known for a decade.
The people calling you a savage were never interested in governing with you.
They were interested in replacing you.
Sources:
- Kathryn Wilkens, "Kevin McCarthy Claims Enraged Nancy Pelosi Would 'Yell' at Republicans That They 'Shouldn't Be in the Room,'" Mediaite, July 29, 2026.
- "Magnetometers Removed From House Chamber," Political IQ, January 3, 2023.
- "GOP Rep Says Pelosi 'Visibly Shaken' During Dust-Up on House Floor, Defends Remarks," Fox News.