US President Donald Trump appeared in his first White House press briefing of 2019 on Thursday to congratulate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on taking over the role of speaker of the US House of Representatives as a new US Congress came into session.
With Democrats now in control of the House of Representatives, the Trump White House is expected to encounter difficulty in enacting its agenda, but the president’s briefing room statements, contrary to his usual online posture, were quite conciliatory. “I think it’ll be a little bit different than a lot of people are thinking,” Trump said of the way his administration and the new Congress will work together.