“While a contract is a contract, I’ll get back to you soon!” President Donald Trump tweeted. | Pete Marovich/Getty Images White House Trump answers Pelosi on State of the Union: ‘A contract is a contract’

President Donald Trump teased Sunday he is “still thinking about the State of the Union speech,” tweeting that “there are so many options” to deliver his remarks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked him to postpone the address as long as the federal government is closed.

“Nancy, I am still thinking about the State of the Union speech, there are so many options - including doing it as per your written offer (made during the Shutdown, security is no problem), and my written acceptance,” the president tweeted . “While a contract is a contract, I’ll get back to you soon!”


Pelosi on Wednesday requested that the president reschedule his annual speech or submit it in writing, citing security concerns exacerbated by the ongoing government shutdown, which entered its 30th day on Sunday.

This year’s State of the Union adderess is scheduled, at least for now, for Jan. 29.

The president responded to the Democratic leader on Thursday by grounding the military aircraft that was set to transport her and a delegation of lawmakers on an official trip to Afghanistan.

In three other tweets Sunday morning , Trump took aim at Pelosi — and her home town, San Francisco — following the House speaker’s swift rejection of his compromise proposal to reopen the government, laid out in a speech the president delivered Saturday from the White House.

“Nancy Pelosi and some of the Democrats turned down my offer yesterday before I even got up to speak,” Trump tweeted , accusing Democrats of posturing for the 2020 presidential race amid the shutdown fight.

“Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally & has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat,” the president wrote in another tweet.

“She is so petrified of the ‘lefties’ in her party that she has lost control ... And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!”