Navajo President: Trump's 'Pocahontas' Comment Was 'Inappropriate'

[L. Coyote]

Nov 28, 2017
MSNBC's Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle interview Navajo Nation's President Russell Begaye about Donald Trump's controversial comment at a Navajo Code Talkers ceremony at the White House.

#ElizabethWarrenIndianName, a lot of racist white people using racial epithets against a white woman

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

Trump turned what should have been a dignified ceremony honoring the code-talkers, their service, language and culture (and which shouldn't have been difficult at all to accomplish) into yet another debased occasion for him to insult somebody - in this case both Sen. Warren and Native Americans. He made it that much worse by holding the ceremony in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson, one of his favorite presidents but not at all a favorite of Native Americans, for good reason. Does he not know that history; or does he know it and not care; or was he intending another insult? It's hard to know with him.

I'm waiting for him to hold a ceremony for Holocaust survivors in which (as Ari Melber suggested) he insults Chuck Schumer by calling him "Hymie" - and there's a portrait of Hitler in the background.

He can make anything suck.

[Gothmog]

2. Trump is an idiot