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Trump references 'Wounded Knee' in tweet mocking Warren
The Hill ^ | 01/13/19 | Emily Birnbaum

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bighorn; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; massachusetts; pocahontas; slingingbull; trump; warren; woundedknee
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To: Miss Didi

These might be his funniest tweets ever.


21 posted on 01/13/2019 8:59:36 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: dfwgator

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


22 posted on 01/13/2019 9:00:34 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: yesthatjallen

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


23 posted on 01/13/2019 9:09:03 PM PST by euram
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To: yesthatjallen

Cavalry not Calvary troops


24 posted on 01/13/2019 9:40:39 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Equine1952

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.


25 posted on 01/13/2019 9:41:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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


26 posted on 01/13/2019 9:53:31 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: euram

well done


27 posted on 01/13/2019 10:09:54 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Reno89519

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


28 posted on 01/13/2019 10:18:37 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Miss Didi

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


29 posted on 01/13/2019 11:06:06 PM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Nomad577
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?

30 posted on 01/13/2019 11:48:33 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: yesthatjallen

“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!


31 posted on 01/14/2019 12:30:39 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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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


32 posted on 01/14/2019 12:46:32 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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To: Reno89519; Nomad577
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.

33 posted on 01/14/2019 1:11:07 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


34 posted on 01/14/2019 1:14:33 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: yesthatjallen
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?

35 posted on 01/14/2019 2:01:34 AM PST by fso301
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“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...


36 posted on 01/14/2019 4:49:56 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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“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.


37 posted on 01/14/2019 4:54:26 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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


38 posted on 01/14/2019 5:00:50 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Miss Didi

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


39 posted on 01/14/2019 5:26:45 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; SamAdams76
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)

40 posted on 01/14/2019 5:30:50 AM PST by spokeshave2 (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall.... $20,424,846 of $1.0B goal by 342,030 people in 27 days)
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