Hours after President Donald Trump clashed with top Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., over border wall funding amid a looming government shutdown, Pelosi reportedly questioned the president's "manhood" to colleagues behind closed doors, The Washington Post reports.
"It's like a manhood thing for him – as if manhood could ever be associated with him – this wall thing," the House Minority Leader told a Democratic caucus committee meeting.
She reportedly continued, "It goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you."
Pelosi also said Trump would "proudly" take ownership for a shutdown.
"But the fact is we did get him to say, to fully own that the shutdown was his," Pelosi said, according to two sources in the room. "That was an accomplishment."
Democratic leaders have agreed to include $1.3 billion for border security in the funding bill, but Trump wants $5 billion to construct a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I am proud to shut down the government for border security," Trump said during the meeting.
"I will take the mantle," the president said. "I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it."
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