Checkmate: Pelosi 'blocks' T-rump from delivering his SOTU speech to Congress

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi got check-mate today, by pulling a major power-play over T-rump: she disinvited him from delivering his "State of the Union" address to Congress at the end of the month.

Wrote Pelosi to the President today, "Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29."

In case he didn't get the 'memo', she reached out to him in a CNN interview this afternoon.
"This is a housekeeping matter in the Congress of the United States, so we can honor the responsibility of the invitation we extended to the President," Pelosi told CNN's Ashley Killough. "He can make it from the Oval Office if he wants."

It was her careful power-play of reminding him that - much to his dismay - Congress is a co-equal branch of government. She's also reminding him that his "government shutdown" impacts him, as well. Pelosi made it very clear in the interview that until the government reopens, she will not give him the honor or platform of addressing the a bipartisan session of Congress.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland pushed T-rump right off the chessboard, when he told CNN's Kate Bolduan Wednesday afternoon that "the State of the Union is off!"