Washington (CNN) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday redirected an attack from President Donald Trump on Twitter, turning a photo he had tweeted of her during a contentious White House meeting with the caption "Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown!" into her Twitter cover shot.

The image released by the White House shows the California Democrat standing with her finger pointed at a seated Trump during a meeting in which congressional Democratic leaders said the President had a "meltdown."

Pelosi's deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill noted the change on Twitter, writing , "Thanks for the new cover photo @realDonaldTrump!"

Trump tweeted this White House photo showing Nancy Pelosi pointing at him saying "Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown!" as an insult to the Speaker. Pelosi later made the image her cover photo on Twitter.

Reporters were not allowed in the meeting Wednesday and CNN does not typically report on photos released by the White House because they cannot be independently verified as an accurate depiction of the events in the room. Pelosi reclaiming and promoting the image that Trump meant as an attack, however, marks a notable -- and newsworthy -- exception.

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