#‘Forget him’: Pelosi defends not speaking to Trump for almost a year

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended how she has handled her relationship with President Trump — after it was pointed out that the two leaders haven’t spoken in almost a year amid mounting crises.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Craig Melvin on Monday, Pelosi (D-Calif.) faced pushback after repeatedly saying “Forget him” while answering a question about countering the commander-in-chief’s rhetoric and narrative.

Melvin noted to the nation’s highest elected Democrat that, “with all due respect, you just said, ‘Forget him.’”

“Yeah, forget him,” she responded.

The MSNBC host then asked if she and the president had “just stopped talking? Is that where we are?”

“You haven’t talked to him about the wildfires, I get the impression you probably haven’t talked to him about the coronavirus relief bill.”

Pelosi and Trump have not spoken since the House speaker got up and walked out of a heated White House meeting in October 2019.

The two were meeting about the commander-in-chief’s then-recent decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria.

Pelosi railed at Trump over the decision, asking him why “all roads lead to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin” with his executive decisions.

The California Democrat walked out of the meeting, during which Trump described her as a “third-rate politician,” and the two have not breathed a word to one another since.

During their fateful run-in at this year’s State of the Union, the president declined to shake the speaker’s hand, and the speaker later tore up the president’s speech.

Pelosi has, however, continued to work with other White House representatives like chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, something she noted to the network Monday.

“Well, I’ve spoken to his representatives and [Trump] says that they speak for him. I take that to be true about the secretary of the Treasury, and we have worked together,” she said before noting other legislative accomplishments made between the two, including the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement and other coronavirus relief bills.

“But I do know that the Congress and the executive branch need to work together to get the job done, and the good use of time would be to follow the data, look at the science,” she continued.