Effect: President Trump, while honoring two surviving Native American “code talkers” who were so important in World War II, telling them (and us) that:
“You were here long before any of us were here. Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.”
What a needless, classless thing to say. Another reason I have, for years, called Donald Trump The World’s Richest Barroom Loudmouth.
Cause: Elizabeth Warren, reacting to President Trump’s comment:
“It is deeply unfortunate that the President of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur.”
It was Elizabeth Warren’s lie about her heritage – the lie that facilitated both her academic and political career – that Mr. Trump was talking about. Without Elizabeth Warren’s lie, the “Pocahontas” comment would not have been made.
I do not believe President Trump intended any racial slur at all. I believe his intention was to put the wood to Elizabeth Warren, nothing else.
He shouldn’t have made that needless, classless comment. She shouldn’t have been a liar.
There’s the effect and cause. You decide which of the two is worse.
Princess Lie-A-Watha speak with Forked Tongue.
Her professorship was gained as a result of LYING on her Harvard job application about being a Native American (1/32nd).
No DNA testing (which is virtually foolproof), no archival records, no family tree — just “I have high cheekbones, and the Indian story is a family legend”.