Today the person who is supposed to represent the United States decided to use thousands of cruel and painful Native American deaths as a joke, because I guess he thinks killing nonwhite people is comedy material:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren formally announced her candidacy for the White House on Saturday, and hours later President Donald Trump weighed in on his newest campaign opponent, appearing to make a joke with reference to the Trail of Tears.
Soon after the Massachusetts senator's campaign announcement, Trump tweeted:
“Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President,” he wrote on Twitter. “Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!”
Ha ha, get it? TRAIL? He’ll massacre Elizabeth Warren just like Andrew Jackson did all those Native Americans, by starvation, exhaustion, and disease. Isn’t that funny? Way to uphold the dignity of the office. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with this guy? Now he’s sucking up to Kim Jong Un, who inflicts similar things on his own people in forced labor camps. Are jokes about that coming, too? Maybe some Holocaust humor? Cambodia comedy? Lynching levity? What the actual…..
Just to rub salt in it, Don Jr. decided to respond via Instagram (and I’m not linking to his actual post):
Savage!!! Love my President.
Get it? Savage? That’s a word they used to justify mass slaughter of Native Americans, even into the 20th century.
Look, I don’t like the fact that Elizabeth Warren wrote “American Indian” on a form in 1986, OK? But for anyone to criticize that by making Trail of Tears jokes? Genocide jokes? Really?? It’s like calling out your neighbor for having ants by burning his house down. I’m at a loss for words. Some others aren’t, though:
To be fair, Individual 1 isn’t the first to make such jokes:
It’s just “economic anxiety in the Heartland.” You know, locker room talk.