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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: HiTech RedNeck

“Cavalry not Calvary troops”

I believe the correct vernacular is: ‘Calvary corpsemen...’

Just kiddin’ ya!


41 posted on 01/14/2019 5:54:52 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: spokeshave2

I am speaking from a historian’s perspective. As some have noted here, many average (young) Americans have no idea what Wounded Knee even is. I vaguely glossed over it myself...but it is a moment in our history worthy of reverence and reflection.

Instead we have the Elizabeth Warrens of the world looking to exploit Native heritage...and our side shouldn’t return the favor by throwing such events in our history around in a mocking context. Poking good fun at opponents here and there is a different story.

Our country and the Western world is facing a crisis of historical illiteracy. And that’s why we have misguided young folk like Alexandria Ocasio Cortes rising up the ranks. But even her illiteracy as a socialist sympathizer wouldn’t warrant mocking events such as Stalin’s GULAG purges for example.


42 posted on 01/14/2019 7:07:16 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Miss Didi

Just remember that Senator Elizabeth Warren will die in office like her illustrious predecessor Teddy Swimmer Kennedy. She is politically untouchable in Mass & will be reelected forever.

Republicans can only hope that Fauxcahontas will go on being a screechy preachy scold. PDJT can provoke her to a foaming rage with a single tweet & should do so on a regular basis.


43 posted on 01/14/2019 7:14:17 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: yesthatjallen
The 24th Cavalry Creek massacre just south of Lawton on the Red River by the Comanches took out about two dozen black cavalrymen. History buries this incident.
44 posted on 01/14/2019 7:14:20 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: BBB333

Groan


45 posted on 01/14/2019 11:15:29 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: vetvetdoug

In the wild West, there wasn’t nearly as much room for racism as in the tame East. Every hand needed to be on deck and snobbishness was a luxury that could not be afforded.


46 posted on 01/14/2019 11:16:41 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: yesthatjallen

bump


47 posted on 01/14/2019 3:41:03 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: fso301

Yes, Little Big Horn was payback for Wounded Knee.

But I think the point being missed here is that Trump is inserting controversial comments so the press will pick up the story.

The same thing happened yesterday when he suggested maybe Melania and the 2nd First Lady could make a few salads for the Clemson Tigers.

Trump is simply jerking the chain of these journalists.

Meanwhile most Deplorables are yacking it up that he’s got their panties in a wad.

Trump is being unPC so he can be credible to average Americans.


48 posted on 01/16/2019 5:55:28 PM PST by poconopundit
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