'Cult to a thug': Democratic leader slams GOP and 'master of projection' Trump

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) thinks former President Donald Trump needs to have his head examined, and laments that his party ought to stage an intervention.

"This guy, [who] is a former president, he is a master of projection," she said during an interview on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell. "Everything he says about somebody else — whether it's a judge in the courtroom, a witness, a juror, a member of Congress, a woman, an opponent in an election."

Her take occurred after odd claims out of the former president's mouth during his meeting in Washington D.C. with congressional Republicans on Thursday.

In an especially wandering stream of consciousness, Trump ranted in front of fawning Republican members about a supposed fairytale romance with the political Democrat powerhouse in another life.

"'Nancy Pelosi’s daughter is a whacko, her daughter told me if things were different Nancy and I would be perfect together, there’s an age difference though," he reportedly bragged.

Pelosi appeared to brush it off as drivel and instead aimed at Trump's mental fitness.

"Everything he says is a projection of his own shortcomings," she said. "Crooked this person — he's crooked! Lazy this person! — he's lazy. Name any subject, any subject you can name — Wacky this person.! He knows he's wacky.

"He knows he's an imposter."

She then welcomed someone to help him deal with his head-scratching statements.

"So if we're gonna do psychoanalysis of him, I think we're going to have to him in-person before some health care professionals."

She then encouraged Trump's family to swoop in to save him from himself.

“I do wish there would be an intervention from his family, assuming they loved him, she said. "That they would intervene, that the Republican party would have an intervention, they have become a cult to a thug.”