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Nancy Pelosi on the Phone refers to a photo of American politician Nancy Pelosi walking while talking on the phone. Pelosi can be seen wearing a white dress as her aides trail behind her. The reaction image came to be used to represent popular understandings of the politician's role as a Democratic party leader who calls the shots behind the scenes. Jokes about Nancy Pelosi on the phone are also often used to joke about her stock trades, with the implication being that she uses insider knowledge to make trades. Most examples using the picture are typically formatted as caption memes.

Origin

The photo of Nancy Pelosi on the phone was taken on September 26th, 2019, supposedly when the then-House Speaker arrived in Washington D.C. during talks about a whistleblower complaint involving then-President Donald Trump.^[1]

The earliest known memes about Pelosi trading on the phone were posted in May 2024, after discussions about stock trader Roaring Kitty reemerged online.

On May 13th, 2024, X / Twitter users @alancarroII^[2] and @CramerTracker^[3] posted tweets that read, "Who the f*ck is Roaring Kitty?" and "Find out whatever that Roaring Kitty is buying and get me in for $10 million," gathering over 14,000 and 11,000 likes, respectively, in six months.

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On July 18th, 2024, Twitter / X^[4] user @buccocapital posted a tweet that read, "six way parlay. I want Biden step down on Sunday. I want Kamala at the convention. I want trump pennsylvania and arizona, kamala electoral, kamala popular. read it back to me." The post gathered over 59,000 likes in six months.

On September 26th, 2024, Twitter / X^[5] user @dkardonsky_ posted a tweet about Sam Altman being fired and then reinstated by OpenAI, writing, "Six way parlay. I want Mira to step down a day after voice mode comes out. I want greg to go on 'sabbatical'. I want ilya to launch a competitor, altman gets equity, GPT-5 October. read it back to me." The post gathered over 1,000 likes in two months.

On October 1st, Twitter^[6] / X user @NancyMace quoted a tweet by @ComfortablySmug that read, "Sell Walz, buy Vance." The post read, "The reason I know this is fake is Pelosi would’ve made this trade 2 days ago," gathering over 68,000 likes in a month.

On November 5th, 2024, X^[7] user @niccruzpatane wrote, "Go all in on $TSLA, it’s over," gathering over 14,000 likes in four days.

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