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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:52 PM Jun 2018

Trump Says He Apologized Over 'Pocahontas' Slur... to Pocahontas


by Tamar Auber | 4:30 pm, June 23rd, 2018

On Saturday, President Donald Trump gave a free-wheeling rally style speech in front of the Nevada Republican Party convention in which talk turned to nicknames and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who he has repeated dubbed “Pocahontas.”

It all started when he was playing with the crowd telling them that he has a nickname for Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV)’s challenger, Jacky Rosen. After teasing the crowd and suggesting he shouldn’t say the name, he then, predictably blurted it out: “Wacky Jacky.”

The President of the United States then said he thought “somebody said she’s in Nevada right now campaigning with Pocahontas. She’s campaigning with Elizabeth Warren sometimes referred to as Pocahontas.”

Trump then said this about the call for him to apologize to Warren for calling her Pocahontas: “They wanted me to apologize. No. I did, though, I did apologize to Pocahontas––to the memory of Pocahontas I apologized. No, Wacky Jackie is campaigning with Pocahontas, you believe this in your state and they don’t know how to say Nevada. They don’t know how to say it.”

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-says-he-apologized-over-pocahontas-slur-to-pocahontas/
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Trump Says He Apologized Over 'Pocahontas' Slur... to Pocahontas (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
When's this traitor going to be removed? SHRED Jun 2018 #1
Isn't he just a ball of hilarity. 😐 lkinwi Jun 2018 #2
This creep belongs in a mental institution ..... CatMor Jun 2018 #3
"Nya, nya, nya!!!!" MyOwnPeace Jun 2018 #9
"I gotta million of 'em" like some kind of cheap vaudeville The_Casual_Observer Jun 2018 #4
Needy Amin goes spoiled child again gratuitous Jun 2018 #5
Needy Amin, perfect ornotna Jun 2018 #10
Trump has bottomless need. There is never enough attention for him. kwassa Jun 2018 #11
he's awful. That said, at a certain point Raine1967 Jun 2018 #6
Nothing funny about you, you horrible man! riversedge Jun 2018 #7
Dirty Donny* is real cute with the nicknames Achilleaze Jun 2018 #8
It was just playground talk Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #12
We're dealing with a 10 year old. trof Jun 2018 #13
God, he is repulsive moose65 Jun 2018 #14
He seems to be jacking up the manic speeches. Am I imagining that? nolabear Jun 2018 #15
This is what passes for humor in Trumpworld NastyRiffraff Jun 2018 #16
Trump Mocks Warren's Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish keithbvadu2 Jun 2018 #17

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
3. This creep belongs in a mental institution .....
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:59 PM
Jun 2018

he is definitely full blown crazy. He seems to be reverting back to how you act in third grade and call other kids by childish, stupid names. He has to go ASAP if our country is to survive.

MyOwnPeace

(16,955 posts)
9. "Nya, nya, nya!!!!"
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 06:09 PM
Jun 2018

"I know you are, but what am I?"

Yes, he DOES belong in a mental institution, but there would be another 30-40 million there with him if that was our defining criteria.

It's simple: he's NOT mentally competent and CERTAINLY not qualified to be in the position of the most powerful person on the earth.

I said he was running his campaign like he would if he were running for Junior High President (don't we wish that was the title he has now?).

You ARE correct - the sooner he is gone - the better chance we have to "Make America Great Again - pre-2017!"

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
4. "I gotta million of 'em" like some kind of cheap vaudeville
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:59 PM
Jun 2018

Asshole.Boom... Rimshot.. The crowd cheers. Assholes.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Needy Amin goes spoiled child again
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 06:00 PM
Jun 2018

And his fans go wild. I don't feel any need to "understand" these assholes.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
11. Trump has bottomless need. There is never enough attention for him.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jun 2018

until the world raises him up to the post of Emperor of Earth, and probably not then, because his genius has not been recognized by other galaxies.

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
6. he's awful. That said, at a certain point
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 06:03 PM
Jun 2018

We need to start calling out his enablers.

I watched the video and they cheered for another one of his racist ramblings.

A monster will not cease to exist as long as it's still fed. The GOP gladly feeds the monster. They are just as bad.

moose65

(3,169 posts)
14. God, he is repulsive
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:40 PM
Jun 2018

It shows how far we’ve regressed that the President of the United States is calling sitting Senators childish names. If Obama or Hillary had done that, the right wing would have positively lost their collective shit. When will this madness end??

nolabear

(42,009 posts)
15. He seems to be jacking up the manic speeches. Am I imagining that?
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:46 PM
Jun 2018

He reminds me of an out of control child who spins faster and faster until something terrible stops him. In children it’s a kind of fantasy of omnipotence and a desperate need for someone to assert control. Without that control and with means to do harm that becomes incredibly dangerous.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
16. This is what passes for humor in Trumpworld
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 08:01 PM
Jun 2018

And his bottom-feeding base laughs their asses off. Deplorables was too kind a name for them.

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