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On Thursday, the 116th Congressional body was sworn into office. Nancy Pelosi’s speakership was fait accompli, but it was still moving and important to see her get the votes for Speaker and see her take the speaker’s gavel once again. Here’s Speaker Pelosi’s speech:

There was a lot to discuss – the second person in the government’s line of succession is back to a Democratic woman. Pelosi is a master negotiator and deal-maker. She will oversee the most racially and ethnically diverse House in history. There’s a historic number of women in the House. All of those sentences would have made a great headline. Instead, the New York Times chose this as their initial headline:

.@nytpolitics has deleted this tweet pic.twitter.com/EXuNJ6EE1P

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 3, 2019

First of all, to the old fart white dudes at the New York Times: Pelosi’s dress was NOT hot pink. It was a warm coral, if anything. Second of all, they absolutely knew that they were doing something stupid. They’re grown-ups. They’ve covered male and female politicians long enough to know when they’re playing into journalistic, political and sexist double-standards. Thirdly, I actually have no problem with noting, within the article, something about Pelosi’s outfit, because as we’ve seen before, Pelosi knows how to make fashion statements. Her choice of a warm pink dress was important because of the Women’s March and because of the historic number of women in the House. Pink is for the Resistance. But just talk about it in the fifth paragraph. That’s not the lede or the headline. The NYT did delete that tweet after the backlash grew:

We’ve deleted an earlier tweet to this article that was poorly framed. https://t.co/YjclBmr3qC

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) January 3, 2019

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is so dumb, obvious and child-like that he decided that he should waltz into the White House briefing room just a short time after Pelosi’s speech. Poor sucky baby wanted attention! He absolutely hates it when someone else is getting attention for anything! Poor jealous orange baby. The point of Trump’s stunt queenery was something about the wall, and he gathered up all of the bald border agents he could find.

And then there’s this: pic.twitter.com/XMT1XPzYfa

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 3, 2019

And here’s the chaser to all of that sexist dumbf–kery:

“No one gives you power. You have to take it from them.” Now elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, is ready for battle: https://t.co/hr7a9TMiCG pic.twitter.com/hh7tG27UBc

— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) January 3, 2019

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