House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her first meeting with President Donald Trump and members of congressional leadership in early 2017 was "weird" and did not go the way a first meeting between a newly-elected president and leaders of the House and Senate normally go.

During an interview with Rolling Stone published Wednesday, Pelosi recalled the meeting and said it was out of the ordinary from the beginning.

"We would have normally been in a Cabinet Room, but he wanted to do this in the East Wing for some reason, so we could have snacks or something," she said. "It was weird. But anyway, so we're in this meeting, and I'm thinking, 'How will he begin this historic meeting? Will he quote the Bible? Will he quote the Constitution or any of our founders? Will he tell a personal story of his family, and what this means?'"

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Pelosi said that Trump opened by telling congressional leaders, "You know I won the popular vote?"

"What?! That was shocking," Pelosi told Rolling Stone. "And then he said... 'Because 3 to 5 million people voted illegally.' There's a protocol to these meetings: The president speaks, he makes his spiel or whatever, and then the speaker speaks, and then the majority leader, and then the minority leader in the House, and the Senate."

The San Francisco Democrat says she pushed back on the president's claim.

"'Mr. President, that is not true,' I say. 'That is not true. What you are saying has no evidence, no data, no truth, no fact to it.' He doesn't realize he's supposed to be making some kind of an opening statement about America and 'These are our priorities' and 'Let's see how we can work together,' but he didn't go there. And I didn't go there. If he's not going to respect his office, why should I? So when I say, 'That's not true.' He says — a good comeback, I have to give him credit — 'I'm not even counting California.'"

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In addition, Pelosi said that Trump attempted to introduce an infrastructure plan, but was quickly shot down by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

"He said, 'Infrastructure. Infrastructure! Yeah, infrastructure, I have a plan right here,'" Pelosi recalled. "[Trump said], 'I have the plan right here. It's a trillion-dollar plan, and we can pass it right away. Right, Mitch?' Mitch says, 'Not unless it's paid for.' That was the end of that."

During the Rolling Stone interview, Pelosi also discussed what she hopes to accomplish during the remainder of her time in Washington, what Democrats plan to do if Trump loses in 2020 but refuses to accept the election results, and much more.

You can read the full interview here.

Eric Ting is an SFGATE staff writer. Email him at eting@sfchronicle.com and follow him on Twitter

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