Eric Trump Wins "Dumbest Trump Of The Day" Award

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President Donald Trump on Monday called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) "Pocahontas," an attack he uses often, during a White House event celebrating Navajo Code Talkers.

Just to remind you, here's the video:

Here's the video: Trump calls Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas' while honoring Native American code talkers: "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." pic.twitter.com/hjZ5MInDDf

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 27, 2017

Unfortunately, his son Eric decided he wanted to compete with brother Don Jr. again for the high honor of "Dumbest Trump."

Eric picked a fight with an ABC News reporter arguing since ABC's parent company is Disney, and Disney made the animated feature Pocahontas, the reporter has no standing to say using the word "Pocahontas" is "offensive."

The irony of an ABC reporter (whose parent company Disney has profited nearly half a billion dollars on the movie “Pocahontas”) inferring that the name is “offensive” is truly staggering to me.

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 28, 2017

You get where this is going, yes? Right over Eric's head.

Eric, let's have a chat.

Try to keep up. 1/

— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) November 28, 2017

First, lets start with irony.

I know you used it in your tweet, but tbh, you prob don't know what it means.

i·ro·ny
noun
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. 2/

— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) November 28, 2017

Okay, now lets break down the ABC reporter/ Disney thing.

Using the word "Pocahontas" as the title of a movie about, "Pocahontas" is not offensive. It would be weird if they called the movie something else. That's kind of how history works. You don't get to make up names. 3/

— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) November 28, 2017

Now, when your dad used "Pocahontas," he wasn't actually talking about Pocahontas. He was talking about Elizabeth Warren. That's how it becomes offensive. Does this make sense to you? Maybe you need examples? 4/

— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) November 28, 2017

Example 1:

If I am talking about you and I say, "oh, its Eric Trump" - not offensive.

If I see some person (not you) on the street with a fucked up looking face and teeth and say "Hey, are you Eric Trump?" - offensive 5/

— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) November 28, 2017

Eric Trump doesn't understand the difference between Disney making a movie about the actual Pocahontas, and his dad calling a white senator "Pocahontas." https://t.co/0IW4GqKdrW

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 28, 2017

Ummm, bright eyes, that movie was about celebrating the actual person Pocahontas. Your father using it as a term of derision for a Dem senator in front of heroes is what is offensive.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) November 28, 2017

For all those who say calling someone Pocahontas isn’t a racial slur would you say the same if the President called someone “Booker T.” Or “Confucius” or “Menachem” as a way to highlight question of African or Chinese or Jewish ancestry?

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) November 28, 2017