{"id":37285,"date":"2017-11-28T20:27:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/28\/trump-gets-blowback-for-his-pocahontas-jab-at-navajo-event\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:14:59","slug":"trump-gets-blowback-for-his-pocahontas-jab-at-navajo-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/veterans\/2017\/11\/28\/trump-gets-blowback-for-his-pocahontas-jab-at-navajo-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets blowback for his &#8216;Pocahontas&#8217; jab at Navajo Code Talkers event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. \u2014 Families of Native American war veterans and politicians of both major parties are criticizing President Donald Trump for using a White House event honoring Navajo Code Talkers to take a political jab at a Democratic senator he has nicknamed \u201cPocahontas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republican president on Monday turned to a nickname he often deployed for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the 2016 presidential campaign to mock her claims about being part Native American. He told the three Navajo Code Talkers on stage that he had affection for them that he doesn\u2019t have for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"apester-media\" data-media-id=\"5a1dc72280722500012bcce5\" height=\"363\"><\/div><script async src=\"\/\/static.apester.com\/js\/sdk\/v2.0\/apester-javascript-sdk.min.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was uncalled for,\u201d said Marty Thompson, whose great-uncle was a Navajo Code Talker. \u201cHe can say what he wants when he\u2019s out doing his presidential business among his people, but when it comes to honoring veterans or any kind of people, he needs to grow up and quit saying things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pocahontas is a well-known historical figure who bridged her own Pamunkey Tribe in present-day Virginia with the British in the 1600s. But the National Congress of American Indians says Trump wrongly has flipped the name into a derogatory term, and the comment drew swift criticism from American Indians and politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur nation owes a debt of gratitude to the Navajo Code Talkers, whose bravery, skill &amp; tenacity helped secure our decisive victory over tyranny &amp; oppression during WWII,\u201d Arizona Republican Sen. 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It\u2019s not going to make any difference,\u201d Warren said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All he \u201chad to do was make it through the ceremony,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that wasn\u2019t possible for Donald Trump. He had to throw in a racial slur.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asked Monday about criticism of Trump\u2019s remarks, said a racial slur \u201cwas certainly not the president\u2019s intent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump made the comment as he stood near a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, which he hung in the Oval Office in January. Trump admires Jackson\u2019s populism. 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Peter MacDonald, a former Navajo chairman and trained Code Talker, who stood beside Trump, also took the opportunity to ask for support for a Navajo Code Talker museum. Trump obliged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Smith, a Marine whose father was a Code Talker, said most of the Code Talkers would be skeptical about going to the White House because it could be construed to mean they support a political cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, why did they go? Why were they there? He\u2019s putting them in the Oval Office to say \u2018You did a good job, and say hi to Pocahontas?\u2018\u201d Smith said. \u201cThey should be taken care of as heroes, not as pawns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Nez, whose father helped develop the code based on the Navajo language, said his father would have been upset to hear Trump\u2019s \u201cPocahontas\u201d comment. 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