Pelosi: Pundits will say Trump did well ‘if his nose isn’t running and he isn’t burping’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is predicting the bar will be so low for President Trump when he delivers his first State of the Union address Tuesday night that pundits will declare the speech successful as long as “his nose isn’t running.”

“If his nose isn’t running and he isn’t burping, he did a great speech,” Pelosi said during a House Democratic Caucus meeting, according to Politico.

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Also in that meeting, Pelosi reportedly urged fellow Democrats to stay on their best behavior during the address in order to keep the spotlight on Trump.

“Let the attention be on his slobbering self,” Pelosi said, according to Politico. “If you want to walk out, don’t come in.”

In his first State of the Union address since taking office last year, Trump is expected to outline his plan to pump $1 trillion into revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure and lobby Congress on an immigration proposal that would offer a path to citizenship for nearly 2 million immigrants brought to the U.S. as children in exchange for funding for a long-promised border wall.

The White House has said that the speech will strike an optimistic tone, though it remains unclear if Trump will stick to the script. 

In urging her caucus to avoid any controversies during the address, Pelosi is hoping to avoid a moment like in 2009, when Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled “you lie” at then-President Obama during an address to a joint session of Congress.