Prominent Democratic Lawmaker Fumbles In Criticizing Trump

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 06: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), C, looks on as U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) speaks at a news conference criticizing President Donald Trump's Wall Street policies on Capitol Hill on February 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C. President Trump is making his first visit to U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command today at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), C speaks as U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) , L, and Rep. Al Green (D-TX) stand at a news conference criticizing President Donald Trump's Wall Street policies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 6, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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.