Donald Trump Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’

By Jonathan Zhou
Jonathan Zhou
Jonathan Zhou
Jonathan Zhou is a tech reporter who has written about drones, artificial intelligence, and space exploration.
May 15, 2016Updated: May 16, 2016

Trump is making Disney references great again. 

Since Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) started exchanging harsh words with Donald Trump, she’s been called “goofy” and “the Indian,” a reference to her alleged history of invoking her 1/32 Native American ancestry to claim affirmative action benefits as a college professor. 

The GOP front-runner now has a third nickname for Warren, again a reference to her supposed Native American ancestry: “Pocahontas.” 

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In a new interview with Maureen Dowd, when asked about Elizabeth Warren’s tirade against him on social media, Trump said “You mean Pocahontas?”

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee April 7, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee April 7, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Warren has been a vociferous critic of Trump on social media, calling him “reckless,” “pathetic,” “a bully” in more than a dozen tweets this month. 

Trump has called out Warren as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton, and her name is among those rumored to be a possible running mate on Clinton’s 2016 ticket. 

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