Trump invokes one of the worst Native American massacres to mock Elizabeth Warren

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By Tim Elfrink January 14 at 5:13 AM



One hundred years after U.S. soldiers killed and maimed hundreds of Sioux men, women and children at the Wounded Knee massacre, Congress formally apologized in 1990 by expressing its “deep regret on behalf of the United States.”

On Sunday night, President Trump used that same massacre as a punchline in his latest broadside against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the Democratic presidential hopeful whom he regularly calls “Pocahontas” in jeering reference to her claims of American Indian heritage.

Critics found that message jarring, even from a president who has repeatedly ignored calls from politicians on both sides of the aisle, historians and Native American groups to stop calling Warren “Pocahontas.”

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Trump’s tweet came amid another extraordinary late-night Twitter barrage as the president — battered by public blame for the ongoing government shutdown and new bombshells about his links to Russia — also lashed out at Post owner Jeffrey P. Bezos and quoted from a racially charged immigration column by Pat Buchanan.

His attack on Warren, who officially jumped into the 2020 presidential race last month, drew perhaps the biggest reaction online thanks to its invocation of a particularly disgraceful chapter of American history.....................................

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/14/trump-invokes-one-worst-native-american-massacres-mock-elizabeth-warren/?utm_term=.69820517f8b5

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NOBODY CAN STOP HIS BIGOTRY AND CRUELNESS!! NOBODY




“+300 of my people were massacred at Wounded Knee. Most were women and children,” tweeted Ruth H. Hopkins, a Dakota/Lakota Sioux writer who has contributed at Teen Vogue, the Guardian and elsewhere. “This isn’t funny, it’s cold, callous, and just plain racist.”

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during an organizing event at Manchester Community College in Manchester, N.H., on Saturday. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

[Siwsan]

1. That actually took my breath away

[RKP5637]

2. I hope this MF'er gets thrown out of office and the tRump criminal enterprise goes to hell. n/t

[riversedge]

9. I have been hoping that for a LONGGGGGGGGGG time. Sometimes difficult to

do, but we must keep trying to outset cruel trump

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. Welcome aboard the Fuck tRump bandwagon!! Always room for one more!!

[2naSalit]

3. K&R

[RAB910]

4. The racism in Donald's post is beyond disgusting

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Just when you think Trump couldn't stoop any lower, he outdoes himself.

Sometimes I wonder if he's actually trying to get himself impeached so he doesn't have to resign and admit to being an abject failure. Surely even Trump has to realize that he can't get elected with only his ever shrinking base. Is he expecting Russia to tip the scales for him again?

[Stuart G]

37. Yes, "he outdoes himself." your words..It is very sad.

What is sadder is: more is coming. Worse than this, and that is hard to believe. Trump will be attacked in ways he has never seen before, because he is in a position that he never imagined.
...As a consequence of his being President, when he attacks like this, because of the last few days, at an innocent person, (Warren), Trump will be verbally attacked publically as he has never been attacked before.

...What I am saying, is more is coming..And it will be worse.

[UpInArms]

6. The sewer this MFer dwells in

runs into the depths of hell

[mountain grammy]

7. This is what keeps his base

Racism, stupidity and hatred.

[calimary]

34. So then one is forced to ask - "what does that say about THEM?"

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I remember fighting off a gagging reflex when a friend (who voted for trump) looked me squarely in the eye and said “you have to UNDERSTAND the people who voted for trump!” I think she believed these were all poor downtrodden allegedly “forgotten” Americans.

Well I DID understand. From everything I initially suspected, then read about and heard discussed, I definitely DID understand them. They were - to an unfortunately large extent - people who’d kept this resentment - of that black guy who dared to deny the old white guy his “rightful” place in the Oval Office, and that uppity woman who had the nerve to think she could be President - buried. Because they instinctively knew that wasn’t cool to say out loud or to think or believe.

But then this other guy came along who DID say those things AND MORE, and it was okay! And he made it okay for THEM, TOO, to say that shit out in the open. He made it okay for them to get in full touch with their inner racist and misogynist. They felt free (their FREEDOM-FREEDOM!) to let all those shitty antisocial prejudiced mean-spirited feelings out of the closet. Things their mom would have scolded them for saying out loud. Things their grandma might have told them, like “we don’t say things like that about other people...” or “now, now, now - be NICE” or threaten to “wash your mouth out with soap”.

THAT’S what I think the yowling about their “freedom” has actually come to mean, by now. They finally get to be themselves, let all their demons out of the closet, and “tell it like it IS!” (You’ve undoubtedly heard THAT one, ‘eh?)

And hey, they’ve got a compelling takeaway, too. HE did that and talked like that in public and said those things out loud and HE never got told to keep it to himself. HE never got told to shut up (at least in any meaningful way - like a parent with the power to discipline or modify behavior toward the good would do). In fact, he suffered no downside AT ALL! NO repercussions! NO consequences whatsoever! He got elected President! He got the biggest brass ring there is, to get.

And a lot of ‘em are probably gonna go down with the ship, figuratively speaking. Because of human nature. Because of the instinct to resist accepting blame even when it’s deserved. Just keep in mind what STILL motivates a lot of the MAGAts: NOBODY wants to admit they were wrong. Or worse, that they’ve been HAD.

NOBODY wants to look like a fool.

[RobinA]

35. I Think This Is

a significant part of it. He validates them because he's a millionaire (supposedly) and therefore must be smart (according to them), so here's this smart successful guy saying these things that they've been secretly thinking all along. Finally, FINALLY some one speaks the truth (to them) and gets away with it.

[calimary]

42. Yep. My dad used to utter that smart-ass remark.

“If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” Half joking. HALF.



I think.

[mountain grammy]

43. Well said, and I couldn't agree more.

[Arkansas Granny]

39. There are some in his base who think they are still supporting the Republican party of

Eisenhower and Reagan. They don't seem to notice that it has been hijacked by the stupid, hate filled racists that are so evident these days. When you get all your news from Fox and let Limbaugh, Coulter and Ingraham do your thinking for you, you can blissfully ignore the ugliness that has taken over the party.

[Raven123]

8. i would love to see Trump and Warren in a one -on-one debate

She is smart, informed, fearless and just as important quick on her feet. If he pulled that stunt in a debate forum, I suspect she would call him out.

[turbinetree]

10. Hey sexual predator, malignant narcissistic psychopath, megalomaniac, and finally TRAITOR

Let me tell you one thing about being a Native.................we never, and I mean we never were a TRAITOR...................

And I have my sister's back.....................she's not a SPY or Traitor

I have my mothers back........................she's not a SPY or a Traitor

And I have my brothers back...................they are not spies and traitors


You, asshole are a TRAITOR.....................you sold your worthless soul to the enemy, without batting one eye, you have no conscience .........................and guess what you and your worthless party own's the shut down..................no matter how you try to flail around to deflect your immoral compass of BS................to divert your TREASON..............you are TRAITOR and a fucking SPY....................... A FUCKING SPY.................

We are coming for you and your party.....................TRAITORS

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................

[Heartstrings]

11. If asked, I'm willing to bet,

Donald has no idea where either Bighorn or Wounded Knee are located. He'd regurgitate some word salad for his base and proclaim he has a bigly casino located nearby....

[raccoon]

13. Trump is unbelievably trashy nt

[MissKat]

14. Pocahontas was a courageous young woman

She became a bridge between her people and the invading Englishmen.

Warren should EMBRACE the name and say, "Pocahontas understood sacrifice. She understood courage. Two words that Mr. Trump has NO understanding of."

Turn it back on him.

[exboyfil]

17. And she was taken away from her home

and died in a foreign land as part of her sacrifice.

I cannot even imagine what history books will say about him. A 100 years ago Wilson was retrograde, but even then he never approached the level of this monster.

[Paladin]

15. The sick, evil bastard.

I want him gone. Immediately. His foul stench is going to linger for years.

[world wide wally]

16. And this is our President"?

Fucking deplorable

[treestar]

18. I'm amazed that Dotard has heard of Bighorn and Wounded Knee

Maybe Miller wrote it for him?

[LiberalArkie]

23. I do not think Trump writes hardly any of them.

I do not he has ever heard of Bighorn, Wounded Knee or hardly anything he speaks of.

[packman]

25. My thoughts exactly

Someone fed him that tweet line and he just vomited it back up

[MineralMan]

19. Trump thinks Native Americans are illegal aliens.

He's as stupid as he can possibly be.

[Oneironaut]

20. Trump is the loud, obnoxious asshole Americans secretly love.

He’s an obnoxious Ugly American that doesn’t care about your feelings. He’s a raging misogynist, and would be the type to loudly demand French fries and English-only in a city halfway across the world.

This plays very well with his base. “Mericaaa!!! Yeaahhhhhh!!! (Trashy redneck yell)”

[mainstreetonce]

21. People get fired for a lot less

Anyone working for a network or a corporation would be fired for open bigotry.

Every elected official who took an oath needs to speak up for Native Americans.

[Cryptoad]

22. I guess there is no need in asking him,,,,,,,

to rescind those 23 congressional medals of honor awarded to the soldiers who slaughtered the women, children and dogs at Wound Knee Massacre, heh?

[mastermind]

24. Repeat, the House needs to censure the orange idiot NOW! nt

[BearThom70]

26. To the diseased flab ass Rump:

May you slide your diseased flabby ass slowly down a rusty railroad spike, you pathetic miserable excuse for a human being.

[geardaddy]

27. Fuck that POS.

And he can't even get the place name right. It's the Little Bighorn, you fucking eejit!

[niyad]

28. he is such a despicable, deplorable waste of oxygen and resouces.

[BlueJac]

29. Trump is one sick mother fucker...

lock this traitor up and throw away the key!

[Solly Mack]

30. What Ruth H. Hopkins said: "...it's cold, callous, and just plain racist"

[They_Live]

31. Don't hold your breath waiting for an apology.

He doesn't do apologies.

[dalton99a]

32. Kick

[Enoki33]

33. When l first read it l literally wanted to vomit. Every day the vile excuse

for a human who sits with questionable legitimacy in the whitehouse continues to prove he is a ignorant racist who daily pours abomination on our country. Friends from other countries have stopped laughing. They are scared for us, and for the world.

[RobinA]

36. I Guess I'm Behind

the curve, but I have no idea to what he is referring. What does his statement even mean? Assuming it does actually mean something.

[Stuart G]

45. Here is the statement, and here is an explanation

"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!"

statement by President Trump..

explanation.. Trump is making fun of two Native American massacres...Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee..
These places were in late 1800s hundreds of Native Americans were killed. Wounded Knee in particular was awful. Innocent children and women were killed for no reason. For Trump to make fun of these events is sickening.

Native Americans killed
Wounded Knee Massacre : 90 men killed
200 women and children killed[3][4]
51 wounded (7 fatally

Here is a link to the Massacre at Wounded Knee...warning very hard to read..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

[Stuart G]

38. What is just as bad is this: He has been asked to stop this type of talk.

So instead of stopping, he increases it.

..Another idea, this is a reaction to his being called a "Russian Asset" and a "tool of Putin". So he goes off on someone who has nothing to do with it, in a vicious way. Just like being called, "Russian Asset"

...Warren who has absolutely nothing do with this recent "Putin" thing. He attacks her after he has been attacked...I think that is what this is all about. Attacking someone for a connection, after he has been attacked for his connection...(and of course, Warren is running against Trump)

[Bayard]

40. Little Bighorn

"Every Cheyenne woman routinely carried a sewing awl in a leather sheath decorated with beads or porcupine quills. The awl was used daily, for sewing clothing or lodge covers, and perhaps most frequently for keeping moccasins in repair. Now the southern Cheyenne women took their awls and pushed them deep into the ears of the man they believed to be Custer. He had not listened to Stone Forehead, they said. He had broken his promise not to fight the Cheyenne anymore. Now, they said, his hearing would be improved."

Read more:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-battle-of-little-bighorn-was-won-63880188/#74zWliTy7CbI0L02.99

tRump could definitely use some sewing awl work on his ears.....

[Bengus81]

41. I'm young enough to be around when Trump DIES,hopefully sooner than later......

Hope to shit he's woofing down all the McDonald's and KFC he can get his hands on. I seriously can NOT wait for this FUCKER to drop dead.

[Stuart G]

44. OK ..Here is The book, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" Dee Brown..1971..

This book is about massacres and Killing of Native Americans throughout U.S.History. It is as bad as it gets, and worse. Read this book if you can.. You will indeed get sick as you read through it.

Trump joking about Wounded Knee is the equivalent to him joking about Nazi concentration camps. Millions of Native Americans were slaughtered as the U.S. expanded west. Also, and of course, their land was taken from them and the way they had survived was destroyed.