So all of that stuff, I believe, is very deliberate.” He understands visuals and optics: His background is in television. “It’s an incredibly distasteful wink in front of people who have sacrificed so much,” Ross said. Gyasi Ross, a member of the Blackfeet Nation tribe and author told the Washington Post that he thought the portrait was deliberate: Some think the portrait was not an accident. To add insult to injury, the White House event took place in the Oval Office under a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, called “the Indian killer” by the Cherokees for his policies that brought about the forced resettlement and death of thousands of Native Americans during the Trail of Tears. To do so is to reduce them to racial slurs.” “American Indian names, whether they be historic or contemporary, are not meant to be used as insults. The remark did not go unnoticed by Native American activists: “The name becomes a derogatory racial reference when used as an insult,” the Alliance of Colonial Era Tribes’ general secretary said in a statement.
He even said during the campaign the he “could be very presidential.” Well it seems he is either incapable or simply uninterested in living up to the stature of what it really means to be commander in chief. I can try to understand those who said they voted for him thinking that if he won, he would develop a more presidential persona. When will he and his unwavering, loyal supporters realize that he is president of the United States and, like it or not, he is held to a higher standard?
It is simply not good enough anymore to say that Trump will be Trump. People said, “Well, that’s vintage Trump.” They said, “Oh, that is who he is.” Well enough of that. Trump grossly insulted some of our most cherished veterans as he clumsily went after her. It gives her an opportunity to comment about just how unfit Trump is for office, which she did. Warren, it is like an in-kind contribution to the “Warren for President 2020” campaign. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) whom Trump has attacked before with the same name-calling in an effort to belittle her and remind people of the controversy surrounding her campaign for Senate when she claimed Native American ancestry.īut in a bit of poetic justice, nowadays, every time Trump uses the insult against Sen. The “Pocahontas” remark Trump made was meant to insult Sen. Why? Why would he bring that insulting, racist, snooty remark into the solemnity of an event honoring some of our most treasured veterans who happen to be Native Americans? Even those who thought they could not be surprised by Trump were.
Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago.
He told the veterans at the ceremony: “You were here long before any of us were here.
#Pocahontas commentator code#
But Trump’s use of an insulting racial slur during an event Monday in the West Wing dedicated to Native American code talkers dropped jaws across the room and throughout the country.ĭuring the White House event designed to honor Native Americans who risked their lives for or gave their lives to the United States during World War II, Trump could not help himself as he talked about “how special” the Native Americans were. At this point in President Trump’s chaotic tenure, one would think nothing surprises.
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