While Rep. Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader, agreed with Waters’s comments, she was quick to point out they were not meant to be taken as grounds for impeachment.
“Many things the congresswoman said are grounds for displeasure and unease in the public about the performance of this president,” she said, but “that is not grounds for impeachment.”
Meanwhile, Pelosi made a slip-up of her own when she referred to the wrong president.
“While it’s only been a couple of weeks since the inauguration, we’ve seen nothing that I can work with President Bush on,” Pelosi said.
A White House official told CNN that Waters’s comments on Trump is a perfect example of “extreme rhetoric from a completely out-of-touch party,” referring to the Democrats. Waters, meanwhile, “lost control and perspective,” the unnamed official added.