This week saw President Donald Trump voice support for legislation that would stop lawmakers like California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi from stock trading.

Those comments did not go over well with Pelosi, who lost her temper when she was asked about them by CNN host Jake Tapper. 

Tapper offered Pelosi an opportunity to answer Trump's claim

According to Breitbart, the exchange between Tapper and Pelosi took place when she made a Wednesday appearance on CNN's "The Lead."

🚨 BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi just had an absolute MELTDOWN when Jake Tapper brought up her insider trading

This is incredible 🤣

“Why do you have to read that?! That’s not what I agreed to come and talk about!”

What are you hiding, Nancy?! pic.twitter.com/isEuvSIhb4

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 30, 2025

"This afternoon, President Trump mentioned you, and he made an allegation about your investments. I want to roll that clip and then give you a chance to respond," Tapper began.

When the clip of Trump speaking failed to play, Tapper continued with, "We seem to be having some — let me just read what he said. I’m sorry that we had some sort of technical issue. Nancy Pelosi became rich--"

Pelosi: "Why do you have to read that?"

However, Pelosi cut Tapper off, saying, "Why do you have to read that? We’re here to talk about the 60th anniversary of Medicaid. That’s what I agreed to come to talk about."

Tapper pressed on, stating, "Yeah, but I wanted to give you a chance to respond. He accused you of insider trading. What’s your response to that?"

"That’s ridiculous," the former House speaker declared. "In fact, I very much support stopping the trading of members of Congress."

"Not that I think anybody is doing anything wrong, if they are, they are prosecuted and they go to jail, but because of the confidence it instills in the American people, 'Don’t worry about this,'" she asserted.

"But I have no concern about the obvious investments that have been made over time. I’m not into it, my husband is, but it isn’t anything to do with anything insider," Pelosi declared.

Stock trading bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley

"But the president has his own exposure, so he’s always projecting. He’s always projecting, and let’s not give him any more time on that, please. We're going forward here," the California congresswoman added.

The legislation which Trump was referring to is known as the Honest Act, and it passed through the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

It was introduced by Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who previously introduced a similar bill called the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act.