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Thanks to Donald Trump, American women have a fresh, iconic photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the White House on Wednesday. There she is, the only woman at a table of two dozen men, standing up to object to what lawmakers confirm was Trump's verbal abuse. Meanwhile, the white male power elite of the United States look down uneasily at their collective hands.

This White House meeting with congressional leaders was supposed to be about the unfolding conflict between Turkey and the Kurds. Before they even got down to business, however, the conversation, perhaps predictably, unraveled. In situations like this, as the only woman in a room full of men -- a woman who is not there as eye candy to help close the deal, but who is present to actually close the deal herself -- Pelosi pushes all Trump's buttons at once.

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