President PROBABLY Man of the Year held an event to honour Native American code talkers this afternoon. It was almost inevitable that Donald Trump, who marked Thanksgiving by listing all his (mostly abstract) accomplishments in a tweet that proves 280 characters was a mistake, would fail to show due respect to the people who occupied this land for centuries before Europeans arrived. But it still amazes that he managed to make the event into an SNL skit in which he's the only one not in on the joke:
This is honestly indistinguishable from a Saturday Night Live number from a little while back, where Alec Baldwin's caricature called Lester Holt "jazzman" and "Coltrane."
"Pocahontas" is the nickname the President of the United States has for sitting Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. It's a reference to an accusation from her 2012 campaign against Scott Brown, the idea being that she used trumped-up claims about her Native American heritage to score a teaching gig at Harvard Law School and otherwise further her career. There's no indication this is accurate, but that didn't stop Brown's staff doing "war whoops" and "tomahawk chops" at a campaign rally—because they're the ones concerned with disrespect for Native American heritage. Sen. Warren responded:
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As if there were any doubt, President Adult Man Business Deals made it abundantly clear later that he has no idea who the code talkers were:
Sweet Jesus. November is Native American History Month, and it's going just about as swimmingly as Black History Month, when Trump completely faceplanted trying to honour Frederick Douglass. It's getting repetitive these days to point out that this is a national disgrace. The president was always disdainful of minority populations and scornful of the idea they merit a true place at the American table. But now it's increasingly clear that he has gone 'round the bend and won't be coming back. Gee, those congressional Republicans better force that tax bill through soon—before the president tells the Prime Minister of Spain that he's never liked tacos.
