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Cooper’s Eye on the Left: While thousands thrown out of work and must search for food, Pelosi shows off her kitchen

Associated Press File Photo / Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who held up stimulus checks for Americans while trying to attach a liberal wish list to the relief legislation, recently showed off her kitchen and ice cream selection while many unemployed sought food from food banks.
Associated Press File Photo / Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who held up stimulus checks for Americans while trying to attach a liberal wish list to the relief legislation, recently showed off her kitchen and ice cream selection while many unemployed sought food from food banks. Associated Press File Photo / Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who held up stimulus checks for Americans while trying to attach a liberal wish list to the relief legislation, recently showed off her kitchen and ice cream selection while many unemployed sought food from food banks.

By Clint Cooper 4 min read

‘Let them eat cake’

While thousands of Americans filed for unemployment after losing their jobs following the COVID-19 virus outbreak and many others sought out food banks in order to eat, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi showed off her kitchen and her ice cream collection on “The Late, Late Show” last week.

The tone-deaf appearance reminded many of the remark attributed – though historians think incorrectly – to French Queen Marie Antoinette, speaking of the plight of peasants who had no bread, in the late 18th century: “Let them eat cake.”

Following an appearance on the show where she trashed President Trump but made no mention of how she held up passage of a virus relief package for the American people, she participated in a show-and-tell segment, displaying her top-of-the-line San Francisco kitchen and her 15-flavor ice cream collection.

“We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times,” she tweeted, appearing in front of her restaurant-size refrigerators. “Mine [ice cream] just happens to fill up my freezer.”