Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is no fan of Donald Trump, but even he is laughing when the presumed GOP nominee refers to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as “Pocahontas.”
“I thought it was funny,” the South Carolina senator said Friday. “When you’re talking about a politician, you’ve got to be able to take a joke.”
Trump has taken to referring to the Massachusetts senator as the famous daughter of Chief Powhatan as a way of dismissing her increasingly personal criticisms. The billionaire’s jabs are based on reports from 2012 disputing the senator’s claim to Cherokee Indian heritage.
Warren identified as a Native American when she applied in the 1990s for a teaching positioning at Harvard Law School. However, she has yet to produce any evidence proving her supposed heritage, according to the Atlantic.
On Friday, Trump was at it again:
Pocahontas is at it again! Goofy Elizabeth Warren, one of the least productive U.S. Senators, has a nasty mouth. Hope she is V.P. choice.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2016
Trump’s latest attacks on the Massachusetts senator come after she laid into him Thursday night in her speech endorsing Hillary Clinton.
“What kind of man is Donald Trump?” Warren asked. “You should be ashamed of yourself. Ashamed for using the megaphone of a presidential campaign to attack a judge’s character and integrity simply because you think you have some God-given right to steal people’s money and get away with it! You shame yourself and you shame this great country!”
She added that Trump is a “thin-skinned racist bully” and a “total disgrace.”
Like the “Pocahontas” dig, Graham thought Warren’s remarks on Trump were also pretty humorous.
She called Trump “small-minded, weak, racist. That’s pretty funny,” the senator told reporters.
“Now the Pocahontas thing. You know she started all of this,” he added. “I don’t refer to her as Pocahontas. I can see why she would be offended, absolutely. … But given this contest, if this bothers you, you need to get out of politics.”
