House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under fire on social media for comments she made about her “connection” to China during a press conference Thursday. Pelosi said she has always had a special relationship with China because of her childhood memory. “When I was a little girl, I was told on the beach, if I dug a hole deep enough, we’d get to China, so we’ve always felt a connection there,” Pelosi said. Pelosi made the comment during a trip to the Indo-Pacific. NANCY PELOSI GOES TO TAIWAN Amid CHINESE THREATS, MILITARY ACTIVITY House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) “We’re really driven by idiots,” Outkick founder Clay Travis said. “LOL what?” said Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA. “Make sure we look like idiots to the rest of the world,” said one Twitter user. PELOSI TAIWAN TRIP: 4 US WARSHIPS IN EAST OF ISLAND U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, front, center left, and her congressional delegation pose for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center right, before their breakfast meeting at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo. (Kyodo News via AP) “Are you telling me this person was our best choice to visit Taiwan?” said another Twitter user. Pelosi made the Indo-Pacific trip last week and stopped in Taiwan on Tuesday, despite multiple threats from China advising her not to visit the island. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L) shakes hands with Hiroyuki Hosoda, speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, during a meeting in Tokyo. (Photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/Afp/AFP via Getty Images) “Our visit is one of several congressional delegations to Taiwan – and in no way contradicts long-standing United States policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, US-China joint communiques and the Six Assurances,” Pelosi said in a statement. “The United States continues to oppose unilateral efforts to change the status quo.” Timothy HJ Nerozzi of Fox News contributed to this report. Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter @asabes10.
