Most days, Nancy Pelosi is one of the most powerful Democratic politicians in Congress. But at a recent Lady Gaga concert, she was just another Little Monster.
The San Francisco representative put her paws up with thousands of other fans at one of the pop superstar’s Mayhem Ball shows at the Chase Center in Pelosi’s home city, as captured in videos online. In one posted on Tuesday (July 29), she makes her way to her spot on the floor of the venue, where she got to watch Gaga’s theatrical show up close.
“It was a fabulous show in San Francisco!” Pelosi wrote, resharing the clip on X. “The most fun I’ve had in a long time.”
Gaga spent three nights at the Chase Center before taking her tour to Los Angeles, where she’s slated to play four nights at the Kia Forum. At the first show on Monday night (July 28), Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray and Chappell Roan were in the crowd.
The Mayhem show in San Fran wasn’t the first time Pelosi has seen Gaga perform live. According to one fan account on X, the lawmaker attended one of the 14-time Grammy winner’s 2021 performances with the late Tony Bennett, whom Pelosi previously invited to attend her Speaker of the House swearing-in ceremony in 2019. Pelosi has also long been a live-music fan in general. In 2015, she stepped out at concerts for Metallica, U2, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Lady Antebellum all within one year.
These days, however, Pelosi’s biggest concerns involve pushing back against the Donald Trump administration in Washington, D.C. This month on X, she’s been speaking out against the president’s cuts to education funding and his “senseless tariffs,” as well as calling for the release of files detailing the government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
Trump, on the other hand, has been making headlines for different reasons. Earlier in July, he faced backlash for posting an AI-generated video of Barack Obama being “arrested,” and a few days later, he once again demanded that Beyoncé be “prosecuted” over debunked claims that she broke campaign finance laws by allegedly taking $11 million in exchange for her endorsement of Kamala Harris in 2024.
