President Trump reprised one of his favorite insults against Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in predicting the Massachusetts senator could launch a 2020 presidential bid.
Trump told the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta Friday that he had a feeling that during the next election cycle they would be inundated with candidates and believes Warren would be one of them.
“I have a feeling that in the next election, you’re going to be swamped with candidates but you’re not going to be wasting your time,” Trump said. “You’ll have plenty of those Democrats coming over and you’ll say, ‘no, sir, no, ma’am.’ It may be Pocahontas, remember that? And she is not big for the NRA, that I can tell you.”
The Pocahontas reference is a jab at Warren’s claims of Native American heritage. During her 2012 Senate campaign, her opponent, former Sen. Scott Brown, drew attention to Warren once claiming Native American ancestry while working as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Warren told NPR in 2012 that she was proud of her heritage.
“These are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mamaw and my papaw. This is our lives. And I’m very proud of it,” Warren told NPR during a 2012 interview.
Popular Boston conservative talk radio host Howie Carr frequently called Warren “Fauxcahontas,” “Sacagawea Warren” and “Pocahontas” during the campaign, suggesting she was only 1/32 Native American – claims Trump has echoed in his on-going feud with Warren.
During a meeting with Democrats in February, Trump reportedly said, “Pocahontas is now the face of your party.”
