Posted on 01/13/2019 8:05:02 PM PST by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Sunday night mocked a video of Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by saying the video would have been a "smash" if she filmed it in "Bighorn or Wounded Knee," a reference to her Native American heritage.
Trump suggested that Warren's husband, who appears in the video, should have worn "full Indian garb."
The president also renewed his use of his racially charged nickname for Warren: Pocahontas.
"If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!" Trump tweeted.
Trump's tweet refers to the massacre of more than 100 Native American men, women and children by U.S. Calvary troops in the late 19th Century. The massacre has become a symbol of the brutality experienced by Native Americans under European-Americans.
The video is a snippet from an Instagram live video Warren filmed from her kitchen. In it, she casually drinks a beer and introduces her husband.
Trump shortly after the first message posted another tweet referring to the video as a "catastrophe."
Trump earlier this month shared a mock campaign logo for Warren that took aim at her claims to Native American ancestry. The logo read "Warren 1/2020th," a play on "Warren 2020" and the DNA test results released in October that showed Warren had a Native American ancestor several generations ago.
These might be his funniest tweets ever.
I’m not an Indian. So in my opinion the Little Big Horn was two groups of people off the reservation. The native Americans visiting families and friends in their habitual way, and a man looking for more glory and a path possibly to the White House. They met and the glory seeker had his arse handed to him. Wounded Knee was accelerated by old feelings and a terrible outcome. Neither of those two places need a power hungry white woman trying to capitalize on those areas. The debts are paid. The memories run deep, the water passed the bridge a long time ago. No need to keep breaking the old wounds open. iMHO
Right now I hear Warren muttering, “I’m going to get me a scalp.”
Cavalry not Calvary troops
So many of the New Left don’t care whom they hurt and how in order to claw to a political victory. This is going to be Pyrrhic.
I think DJT mocks her not our country or the folks here. I live here in the west. We get along for the most part and respect each other’s heritage. We are now all Americans. Trying to capitalize on a history is pretty shabby. When the President points it out the left gets their panties all wadded up. He puts the humor where it needs to be. On the jerks trying to get somewhere some hold respect for. MAGA
well done
I agree. President Trump needs to tread just a little more carefully, just reign it n a little bit.
YES - that one’s all over The_Donald! LOL, Go Trump!!
He is also making American history more well known. How many American teenagers have ever heard of Wounded Knee?
“a reference to her Native American heritage” — What heritage? She is as much a Cherokee as I am the King of Siam. That’s the point!
If she wins the nomination, we can finally clear up the question that has intrigued so many for so long, exactly what percentage of Cherokee blood is ideal for an aspiring presidential candidate? 3% ?? 76% ?? So many choices, and nobody really knows the answer. /s
*Sigh* Agreed.
Yeah, sometimes Trump should allow himself
the luxury of an unexpressed thought.
What happened at Little Big Horn?
“How many American teenagers have ever heard of Wounded Knee?”
Back in the 60s & early 70s “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” was required reading. But civics and government classes were also required curriculum...
“It’s their house, he’s supposed to be there!”
A little shout out to the dead beat, derelict baby daddies who are out playin’, drinkin that drank, and rollin’ them bones.
U.S. Calvary troops?
Must have been a “cross” fire.
He is funny. Thr MSM will cover this for days...only making Pocahontas look worse.
If that were so then his Twitter following would decline
Trump Twitter following on 12/18/18 = 56,015,350
Trump Twitter Following on 1/19/19 = 56,746,185
Increase of 730,835 an Increase of 1.3%
In the same period Poccahantas increase was a modest 37,708 at 0.8%
(data from SamAdams76 Monthly data here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716681/posts)
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