President Trump on Friday celebrated Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) decision to retire from Congress at the end of the term, calling the New York liberal “disgusting.”
“Jerry Nadler, one of the most disgusting Congressmen in USA History is, at long last, calling it ‘quits’ – He’s finally leaving Congress,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The president continued, “I’ve been beating this bum for 40 years, first as a New York City developer, where he opposed me, for no reason, at every corner, but could NEVER stop me from getting the job done, and then, as your President, where this psychopathic nut job, together with Crazy [former House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, Impeached me twice, AND LOST, wasting Millions of Dollars in time and taxpayer money.”
Nadler, who has served in the House for more than three decades, revealed in an interview with The New York Times that he would not seek reelection.
“Watching the [former President] Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler told the Times, adding that a younger candidate “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
The lawmaker became the chair of the House Judiciary Committee at the start of the president’s first term in 2017, eventually guiding two impeachment trials against Trump.
Nadler withdrew from the race for the top Democratic post on the committee earlier this year, arguing that he wanted to carve out space for younger candidates in Congress. He later endorsed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who comes from the generation after him, to serve as ranking member.
The New York Democrat is serving his 17th term in the House.
“It will be a great day for the U.S.A. when Nadler, a pathetic lightweight, is out of office and leaves our beautiful, and NOW VERY SAFE, Washington, D.C.,” Trump wrote Friday.
