House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long been heralded by Democrats and their allies in the media as some sort of master political strategist — but it looks like she’s fallen off her pedestal.

She dominated headlines following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this month when she theatrically ripped up a copy of the president’s speech.

The top Democrat is clearly not coping well with the fact that Trump was acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial.

During a recent interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Pelosi had quite the slip of the tongue and admitted what we all knew: she tore up a copy of Trump’s speech for “attention.”

“I had no intention of doing that when we went into the State of the Union,” Pelosi said.

But that claim seems false given a camera caught her pre-ripping the speech while the president was still talking, further suggesting she had the stunt planned all along.

But Pelosi doubled down, standing by her assertion that it was a random moment.

“I was reading ahead. I knew what was there. I got through a third of it, and I thought this is terrible. I made a nitch on a couple of pages, thinking I ought to remember what’s on this page, this page. Then I realized that almost every page had something in it that was objectionable. So it wasn’t a planned thing,” Pelosi said.

Towards the end of the interview, Pelosi actually admitted that she felt several issues needed more attention from the media and that the best way to accomplish that was to get the attention by tearing up her copy of the president’s speech.

“One of my disappointments is the fact that with all that we have done legislatively, whether its equal pay for equal work, raising the minimum wage, gun violence protection, issues that relate to our children, the list goes on, climate action now,” Pelosi said. “We have very little press on it. And it seems if you want to get press, you have to get attention. I thought, well, let’s get attention on the fact that what he said here today was not true.”

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Nancy Pelosi tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour she "had no intention" of ripping up Trump's State of the Union address until she read it: "I thought, 'This is terrible… Let's get attention on the fact that what he said here today was not true'" https://t.co/ldTDIN310v pic.twitter.com/rQVBl12UQP — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 15, 2020

During another part of the interview, Pelosi bizarrely claimed the president was actually not acquitted — which is utterly false.

“What about, though, the fact that the president seems liberated, and this is about Democratic politics, so I’m not asking you to criticize here, but he was acquitted, his poll ratings are high …” Amanpour said.

“So I’m not asking you to criticize here, but he was acquitted, his poll ratings are high …” Amanpour said.

Pelosi interrupted: “He was not [acquitted]. There was no [acquittal].”

The Republican-controlled Senate voted nearly two weeks ago to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment.

Pelosi has even accused Trump of being on drugs during his State of the Union address.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz also filed an ethics complaint against Pelosi, claiming she may have violated rules by tearing up an “official government document.”