DONALD TRUMP YESTERDAY APPEARED BEFORE AN EVENT TO
HONOR NAVAJO WAR VETERANS, THE CODE TALKERS, WHO WERE FLUENT IN
NAVAJO AND ENGLISH AND THEN INVENTED AN ENTIRELY NEW
LANGUAGE TO BE ABLE TO SEND CODES, THERE WAS A GREAT PIECE
IN A SQUARE, QUOTING FROM AN OBITUARY OF A NAVAJO CODE TALKER
WHO DIED IN 2015 -- JUST SO YOU ARE CLEAR, HIS CODES WERE,
JAPANESE ENEMY MACHINE GUN TO YOUR RIGHT, TAKE IT OUT,
DESTROY.
YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID?
THEY HEARD THAT, THE JAPANESE
COULDN'T BREAK THE CODE, THEY TOOK IT OUT, DESTROYED IT, AND
WON A BATTLE.
THIS GUY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY THAT
CHARLES PIERCE WAS QUOTING FROM, HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE, WHEN
HE WENT TO GET HIS IDENTITY CARD THAT NATIVE AMERICANS IN NEW
MEXICO WERE REQUIRED TO CARRY, THEY TOLD HIM HE WASN'T A FULL
AMERICAN CITIZEN, HE COULDN'T VOTE FOR YEARS, AND EVEN THOUGH
AS HE THOUGHT TO SIGN UP FOR THE MARINES WHEN A RECRUITER CAME,
HE THOUGHT WHY WOULD I DO THIS AFTER THE WAY THE GOVERNMENT HAS
TREATED MY PEOPLE, AND HE THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST
MEANINGFUL CHANCE I HAVE TO SERVE MY COUNTRY.
SO HE DID.
SO
DON'T TRUMP TAKES THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE HIS
POCAHONTAS JOKE AT AN EVENT TO HONOR THE NAVAJO WAR VETERANS AT
THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE REACTION WAS UNIVERSAL, THEY WERE
DUMBFOUNDED THAT TRUMP WOULD USE THIS EVENT TO TAKE A POLITICAL
JAB AT ELIZABETH WARREN.
AND THE REASON HE IS TAKING THIS
POLITICAL JAB AT ELIZABETH WARREN IS BECAUSE I THINK THE
WHITE HOUSE SEES HER AS A THREAT, AND THEY WANT TO UNDO
HER CONTRIBUTION TO REBOUNDING FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THE
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BOARD, THAT IS HERS, IT HAS
WORKED, MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER IT THE STRONGEST FEDERAL ACTION
TAKEN AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, AND THEY WANT TO KILL
HER SIGNIFICANT PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
THE BATTLE THAT HAS
BEEN SET UP IS THAT THE DIRECTOR RESIGNED, AND HE NAMED A CAREER
EMPLOYEE THERE TO TAKE OVER, AND DONALD TRUMP, BECAUSE THERE WAS
A VACANCY AT A FEDERAL STAFFING POSITION, NAMED MICK MULVANEY,
HIS BUDGET DIRECTOR.
FIRST OF ALL THE GUY HAS A JOB, SO HIS
JOB WOULD BE DO NOTHING, PROTECT NOTHING.
SO THAT'S IMPORTANT,
WHO WILL LEAD THAT.
BUT THE REACTION -- I BELIEVE THAT WAS
TRUMP'S MOTIVATION FOR MAKING THE POCAHONTAS JOKE ABOUT
ELIZABETH WARREN, A JOKE THAT HAS NO RESIDENCE WHATSOEVER.
HERE WAS THE REACTION AROUND TOWN TO THAT, FIRST OF ALL FROM
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS --
>>THAT IS NOT WHAT HAS HAPPENED, THAT STORY HAS BEEN
DEBUNKED 1000 TIMES.
MEGAN MCCAIN, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO SHOULD
REALLY NOT BE CARRYING THE ADMINISTRATION'S WATER ON
ANYTHING, SHE WENT ON THE VIEW THIS MORNING AND SAID THAT
SENATOR WARREN USED HER NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE TO GET INTO
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL.
SHE TAUGHT AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL.
DO YOU
KNOW WHERE SENATOR WARREN WENT TO LAW SCHOOL?
SHE WENT TO
RUTGERS, THE NEWARK CAMPUS.
>>OH WOW.
>>I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF THE RUTGERS -- I AM A LITTLE.
BUT SHE WAS GOING TO GET IN THERE.
AND SHE DIDN'T USE IT
THERE, IT WAS MERELY LISTED IN HER HARVARD PROFESSORIATE BIO.
SHE WAS ALREADY AT HARVARD.
SUCCESS.
YOU CAN'T REALLY
SUCCEED ANY MORE, THAT'S IT.
OF COURSE MCCAIN GOT THE
INFORMATION WRONG, AND SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS SUGGESTING THAT
WHAT MOST PEOPLE FIND OFFENSIVE IS WARREN LYING ABOUT HER
HERITAGE -- NO, WHAT MOST PEOPLE FIND OFFENSIVE IS THE PRESIDENT
CALLING SENATOR WARREN POCAHONTAS, AND AUGMENTED BY THE
FACT THAT HE DID IT IN FRONT OF THESE NAVAJO WAR VETERANS.
ABC
GOT INVOLVED IN THE PERSON OF JONATHAN KARL --
>>A COUPLE THINGS, I KNOW THESE GUYS ARE OUT THERE AND WE HAVE
SEEN SOME GREAT JOURNALISM, BUT IT SHOULD BE OFFENSIVE TO
EVERYONE, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT IS OFFENSIVE, WHAT
MATTERS IS THAT IT IS HIDEOUS AND INAPPROPRIATE AND
UNPRESIDENTIAL AND CRUEL AND PETTY.
AND OF COURSE BY
REFERRING TO ELIZABETH WARREN AS POCAHONTAS, OF COURSE THAT WILL
BE OFFENSIVE TO THESE GUYS.
I DON'T MEAN TO SINGLE KARL OUT,
BUT EVEN THAT HAS A WAY OF MAKING IT SEEM LIKE THOSE NAVAJO
CODE TALKERS SURE ARE TOUCHY.
>>I FEEL WITH STORIES LIKE THAT WHEN PEOPLE SAY AND WRITE THOSE,
YOU ARE CAUGHT IN A DIFFICULT POSITION BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT
TEARING DOWN EVERY LINE OF FORMALITY THAT HAS EVER BEEN SET
FORTH, AND THEN YOUR RESPECT FOR THE KIND OF WAY THAT A
JOURNALIST WHO IS AN ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT WRITES.
>>I DON'T MEAN TO CALL OUT KARL BUT IT HAS THE EFFECTS TO
ME, I READ THAT, AND IT IS LIKE, TOUGHEN UP, NAVAJO CODE TALKERS.
WHEN LITERALLY HISTORY HAS PROVEN THEY ARE THE
TOUGHEST AMERICANS.
>>IT'S SO TRANSPARENT, THERE IS AN INDIAN, SHE SAID AN INDIAN
THING --
>>AND THEN REACH OUT, LIKE, I LOVE YOU, GUY.
>>IT'S A WINDOW INTO HIS MIND, LIKE HE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE
GRAVITY OF ANY MOMENT EVER.
AND TO YOUR POINT, IT IS STUPID.
WE
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GO DOWN THE LINE OF THE RACIAL SLUR ARGUMENT
TO TALK ABOUT HOW INAPPROPRIATE IT IS.
USING THE MOMENT TO
INSULT ANOTHER SENATOR I THINK IS RIDICULOUS, BECAUSE THEN WE
GET INTO THE ISSUE WITH SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS SAYING IT ISN'T
A RACIAL SLUR, WE HAD THAT ARGUMENT, AND NOW IT'S A DEBATE
ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE FIND OFFENSIVE?
>>EVERYBODY SAYS THINGS BETTER THAN I DO, THANKS FOR SAYING
THAT.
NOW WE GET A RESPONSE TO JONATHAN KARL'S TWEET FROM ERIC
TRUMP, WHO IS THE OTHER SON --
>>I SAW A TWEET TODAY, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHO IS FROM AND I'M
SORRY NOT TO GIVE THEM CREDIT, THAT IT'S BECOMING HARD TO TELL
WHO THE DUMBEST TRUMP SON IS.
THE COMPETITION BETWEEN ERIC AND
DONALD JUNIOR IS REALLY INTENSE.
I THINK IT WILL GO DOWN TO THE
WIRE.
>>I THINK POCAHONTAS IS A BAD MOVIE.
DISNEY SHOULD KINDA BE
ASHAMED, IT WAS A VERY DENSE IS WITH WOLVES ERA NATIVE AMERICANS
ARE MAGIC PEOPLE, GRANDMOTHER WILLOW CAN MAGICALLY TOUCH YOU,
NOW YOU SPEAK THE SAME WHITE WHICH, PAGE WITH ALL THE COLORS
OF THE WIND -- IT IS VERY TOUCHY-FEELY.
>>I NEITHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE, BUT THAT'S A REASONABLE POINT.
BUT IT IS FROM AN INDUSTRY THAT FOR THE FIRST 40 YEARS THAT IT
WAS IN SERIOUS BUSINESS IN A BIG, PROFITABLE, MONEYMAKING
BUSINESS, PORTRAYED 97% OF EVERY NATIVE AMERICAN AS A DANGEROUS
WARRIOR WHO WANTED TO SLIT YOUR THROAT.
MAYBE THERE IS TOO MUCH
SIMPLIFICATION.
>>BUT THERE IS A VIDEO CIRCULATING NOW OF DONALD TRUMP
ASKING WHY CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE GIVEN LICENSES BY THE GOVERNMENT
TO HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN GAMING CASINOS, AND HIS QUOTE IS, THEY
DON'T LOOK LIKE INDIANS TO ME.
THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE INDIANS TO ME.
>>THERE IS VIDEO.
>>AND THERE IS VIDEO OF THIS, YOU HAVE A FEATHER, THEY HAVE A
FEATHER -- HE HAS NOT GONE ANYWHERE, HE IS --
>>HE IS STUCK IN 1940S MOVIES.
>>AND THIS TWEET IS A NON SEQUITUR.
WHY ARE WE TALKING
ABOUT THE MOVIE POCAHONTAS?
POCAHONTAS IS A REAL PERSON.
AND
POCAHONTAS CAN BE A SHITTY MOVIE AND THIS CAN BE A SHITTY
STATEMENT, THINGS CAN BE TRUE.
>>YOU
KNOW WHO WAS CALLED POCAHONTAS IN THE MOVIE POCAHONTAS?
POCAHONTAS.
>>AND COMING FROM YOU --
>>YOU CAN USE THE WORD POCAHONTAS AS THE NAME OF PERSON
AND AS A SLUR, THE USAGE IS WHAT MATTERS.
I COULD SAY LOVE TRUMPS
HATE AND THAT IS NOT A SLUR BUT I COULD SAY YOU ARE ACTING LIKE
A REAL TRUMP AND THAT IS A SLUR.