A comedian was escorted away from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after he posed as a Democrat and heckled her over her stock trading, calling her “the greatest options trader of all time” and asking for tips on which shares he should buy.
Alex Strenger, a conservative comedian, approached Pelosi as she was signing copies of her new book “The Art of Power” at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday — a clip of which was posted on the X social media platform on Sunday.
Strenger, who is seen wearing a COVID mask and a Bernie Sanders baseball cap, approached the table where Pelosi was sitting and identified himself as “Noah,” according to the news site Mediaite.
“I’m a UTA candidate. I was listening. I wasn’t able to get a book, sold out, but I want to say how much I appreciate your, like, fierce, staunch defending of democracy,” Strenger told Pelosi, adding that it “really means so, so much, you know?”
