Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Tuesday defended President Trump for calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” at an event honoring Navajo code talkers.
Scaramucci said his remark fits in with the “style” that helped Trump get elected.
“I think that she’s been nasty to him, and he’s been concurrently nasty to her,” he said.
Anthony Scaramucci defends Trump's “Pocahontas” jab at Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “She's been nasty to him and he's been concurrently nasty to her” https://t.co/nd2TDpKAKQ— New Day (@NewDay) November 28, 2017
When pressed, he said he has also been the target of ethnic slurs, and said he’s learned to brush them off.
“This is what I do,” he said as he mimed brushing away a comment.
“We’re getting a little bit to micromanaging with each others’ languages and the whole political correctness movement,” he said.
Trump has called Warren “Pocahontas” as a way of mocking her claim that she is 1/32 Native American. Warren says she does have that lineage, but faced questions years ago about whether she leaned on that heritage to help advance her academic career.
Warren has said she never did that, and criticized Trump for using a “racial slur.”
The White House fired back by saying the term is not a racial slur.
