In a quick interview with the Chronicle, Pelosi continued her attack on the GOP nominee. | AP Photo Pelosi: Trump 'knows he shouldn't be president'

Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want Donald Trump to be president, and she’s pretty sure the Republican nominee agrees with her.

“He’s smart,” the House Minority leader told the San Francisco Chronicle after a school visit in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. “He knows better than anyone he shouldn’t be president.”


The California Democrat was asked about Trump during a question-and-answer session with a classroom of eighth-graders at San Francisco’s private Children’s Day School. Her visit capped off the class’ yearlong civics project on gun control, which yielded a petition with 1,000 signatures advocating an array of gun-control legislation, delivered to Pelosi’s district office. Pelosi praised the students’ questions as “so deep, so thoughtful, so concerned,” but she had harsher words for Trump.

“It’s hard to know what he stands for because he’ll say, ‘Well, this is what I’m saying now, but when I become the nominee, when I become president, I’ll maybe change my mind about things,’” she told the students.

In a quick interview afterward with the Chronicle, Pelosi continued her attack on the GOP nominee.

“My view on him is he knows he shouldn’t be president,” she said. “It’s like every day he is saying, ‘Save me from myself.’ Like saying there’s no drought in California.”