Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosis five-decade friendship appears to be in a dangerous place.

The politicians have not spoken since at least July 21, New York Times reported on Wednesday. It was the day Biden opted out of the 2024 presidential race after a pressure campaign from prominent Democrats.

At the forefront of that push to oust the president was Pelosi, who reportedly wielded her power to get her old pal off the ticket. That attempt was immediately followed by a nationwide tour where she showcased her book, The art of powerwhich gave her “the opportunity to disparage Biden’s political team for failing,” the Times reported.

The relationship becoming shaky in the public eye appears to be taking a toll on Pelosi. The 84-year-old The New Yorker earlier this month that she loses sleep at night thinking about her standing with Biden.

When pressed on whether she hopes she and Biden can one day fully reconcile, she told the magazine, “I hope so, I pray so, I cry so.” IN the art of power, she wrote that Biden was among the first to call her after her husband, Paul, was attacked with a hammer in 2022.

“He was so prayerful, kind and thoughtful in his comments,” she wrote.

Biden has not directly addressed the rift publicly, but multiple reports have said he took exception to being pressured out of his own re-election race. A Politico The report on Wednesday, citing people close to Biden, said he views Pelosi as “reckless” for “showing him out the door.”

That report claimed that Biden, 81, also has frustrations with Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer, but is beginning to understand why the push was necessary — a decision that seems smarter for Democrats every day as Kamala Harris continues to illuminate polls where Biden fell. .

Politico reported that Biden told someone close to him that he feels Pelosi ultimately “did what she had to do” to give Democrats their best chance to win in November. He reportedly added that Pelosi “cares about the party,” not feelings.

Biden’s only public comment about Pelosi since dropping out came in a television interview over the weekend, in which he said he decided to quit when he realized talk of his mental capacity had become a distraction.

“I was worried if I stayed in the race, that would be the subject,” Biden told CBS. “You were going to interview me about why did Nancy Pelosi say (something), why did s0 say — and — and I thought that would be a real distraction.”

While there seems to be mutual respect between the two, the future of the friendship still hangs in the balance. The two politicians are regularly regarded as the most prominent of the Silent Generation, having had a heavy hand in Democratic politics since they were elected to Congress in the 1970s and ’80s.

Biden showed his admiration for Pelosi in May, awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom and anointing her “the greatest speaker of the House in history.” Pelosi has suggested that Biden deserves equal praise at the presidential level, recently saying she would put Biden on Mount Rushmore if she could.

“A Mount Rushmore type of president of the United States,” she told Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes. “You’ve got Teddy Roosevelt up there. And he’s wonderful. I’m not saying take him down. But you can add Biden.”