Trump references 'Wounded Knee' in tweet mocking Warren

The Hill ^ | 01/13/19 | Emily Birnbaum

[EdnaMode]

These might be his funniest tweets ever.

[Equine1952]

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

[euram]

Right now I hear Warren muttering, “I’m going to get me a scalp.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cavalry not Calvary troops

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[Equine1952]

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

[canuck_conservative]

well done

[Crucial]

I agree. President Trump needs to tread just a little more carefully, just reign it n a little bit.

[4Liberty]

YES - that one’s all over The_Donald! LOL, Go Trump!!

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I’ve said this before but I think he accidently made her more well known by talking about her like this.

He is also making American history more well known. How many American teenagers have ever heard of Wounded Knee?

[Unam Sanctam]

“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!

[Peter ODonnell]

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

[CondoleezzaProtege]

I am missing the “humor” in this. Big Horn and Wounded Knee are horrific events, sad chapters in US history. Her clip is enough on its own without the new references. I think Trump creates cringeworthy risks with comments like this. Unsettling and unnecessary.

*Sigh* Agreed.

[sparklite2]

Yeah, sometimes Trump should allow himself
the luxury of an unexpressed thought.

[fso301]

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.

What happened at Little Big Horn?

[Clutch Martin]

“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...

[Clutch Martin]

“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.

[N. Theknow]

U.S. Calvary troops?
Must have been a “cross” fire.

[nikos1121]

He is funny. Thr MSM will cover this for days...only making Pocahontas look worse.

[spokeshave2]

I think Trump creates cringeworthy risks with comments like this.

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)