Donald Trump is dismissing critics who say he’s a xenophobe, and doubts many people even know what the word means.
Trump and Boston radio host Howie Carr were aboard Trump’s Boeing 757 after attending a rally in Bangor, Maine, when Carr, according to his column in the Boston Herald published Thursday, mentioned a sign he saw that day in Boston saying “RACIST SEXIST BIGOT FASCIST XENOPHOBE ISLAMOPHOBE TRUMP.”
According to Carr, the presumed Republican nominee waved his hands dismissively.
“Hillary’s called me a ‘xenophobe’ a few times. How many people even know what the word means? Same with ‘nativist,'” Trump replied.
Carr warmed up the crowd for Trump at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor ahead of Gov. Paul LePage’s introduction of Trump. In that speech, Carr was criticized for mocking Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by doing a “war whoop.”
The “whoops” were in reference to Trump’s continual teasing of Warren by calling “Pocahontas,” a jibe at her claimed Native American heritage.
