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7:25Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, we watch just how petty and hateful Donald Trump is when he uses Native American veterans to score political points.
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---President Trump called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “Pocahontas” again Monday. Apparently not satisfied with the coverage he got when he called her that repeatedly during the 2016 campaign, in March, in April, in June or earlier this month, Trump decided to up the ante. This time, he employed his favored insult at an event honoring Native American code talkers.
The response has been about what you'd expect: Democrats and some journalists calling it a racial slur, and the White House declining to back down, saying Warren's questionable claim to Native American heritage is what's offensive. And if we had a poll on this issue right now, I'm guessing it would show what polls show after basically every Trump controversy: Many or most Americans don't like what Trump did, but his base thinks everyone is making too big a deal out of a harmless nickname.
I don't see strategy in everything Trump does, but I see it here. I think Trump sees this as a way to ruffle feathers and get the media hot and bothered, knowing his base will view the impending kerfuffle as a politically correct overreaction. It's the same calculation you see over and over again — in his crusade against NFL national anthem protests, in his comments about cracking down on journalists' rights, in his Charlottesville reaction, in his feud with LaVar Ball, etc. Trump says something provocative — often with racial overtones or implications — and waits for the familiar divide to reappear.---
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