WASHINGTON — President Trump was delighted by the news Thursday that his longtime adversary, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is retiring at the end of her term in January 2027.

“The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America. She was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country,” Trump told Fox News’s Peter Doocy. “She was rapidly losing control of her party.”

“I’m very honored she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. Nancy Pelosi is a highly overrated politician.”

Pelosi, 85, announced that she won’t vie for a 20th full term in the lower chamber and instead will round out her four-decade career in the House, where she became the first woman to wield the Speaker’s gavel. 

Later in the day, Trump doubled down on his attacks against Pelosi, chiding that “she did the country a great service by retiring.”

“She’s an evil woman. I’m glad she’s retired,” Trump further vented to reporters. “I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot. a lot, in damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible.”

The Golden State Democrat had been one of Trump’s fiercest rivals during his first term in the White House, siccing the chamber’s powerful investigative committees on him and backing two separate and unsuccessful impeachment efforts.

“This president is impeached for life regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell,” Pelosi gloated following the first House impeachment in late 2019. “There is nothing the Senate can do to ever erase that.”

Months later, Pelosi ripped up Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address while seated behind him on the House rostrum. 

“She’s a sick puppy in my opinion, she really is,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” weeks later. “She’s got a lot of problems.”

“He’s just a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the earth,” Pelosi told CNN of the 47th president this week, later agreeing with the interviewer’s language that Trump was “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”

Despite stepping down as the top House Democrat after Republicans retook the chamber in the 2022 midterm elections, Pelosi remained a massively influential member of her party’s caucus. 

She also played a key role in the party’s mutiny against former President Joe Biden following his disastrous debate against Trump last year. 

“I decided a while ago that Donald Trump will never set foot in the White House again, as president of the United States or in any other capacity,” she later told The Guardian about her machinations during the mutiny against Biden, her longtime friend and fellow Catholic Democrat. 

Trump was far from alone in cheering Pelosi’s retirement.

National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Richard Hudson (R-NC) proclaimed that “Radical socialist Zohran Mamdani takes over the Democrat Party and even Nancy Pelosi has had enough.”

Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) praised Pelosi as “the greatest Speaker of all time.”

“The United States is a much better nation today because Nancy Pelosi dedicated her life to serving the children, the climate, the country and the American people.”