Warren and Trump have a long history. And it isn’t a very friendly one.
Now Elizabeth Warren went completely off the rails after Trump demolished her.
President Trump didn’t hold back during his Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, unleashing a sharp jab at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by dusting off his go-to zinger: “Pocahontas.”
The quip landed with a thud amid a fiery riff on Democrats’ appetite for funneling more military aid to Ukraine in its clash with Russia.
The moment flared when Trump griped, “The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine’s defense,” a rare line that sparked claps from some Democrats.
Warren, ever the Ukraine cheerleader, kept her hands going — grinning and picking up the pace — even as Trump zeroed in on her.
“You want to keep it going for another five years,” he snapped, before adding, “Pocahontas says yes.” The barb didn’t faze her; she clapped on, unfazed.
Trump’s “Pocahontas” dig is a well-worn classic, tied to Warren’s past claims of Native American roots during her stints teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
The Boston Globe dug into it back in 2012, noting she was listed as Native American in a law school faculty directory.
Warren’s long insisted she never leveraged that heritage for career boosts, but a 2020 DNA test—showing mostly European ancestry with a faint Native American thread six to 10 generations back — only fueled Trump and GOP jeers over the tenuous link.
The exchange pivoted from personal to policy as Trump pressed his case. “2,000 people are being k*lled every single week. More than that,” he said post-Warren jab. “They’re Russian young people.
“They’re Ukrainian young people. They’re not Americans, but I want it to stop.” It was a prelude to his big move: a day earlier, he’d slammed the brakes on all U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
Trump didn’t stop there, tearing into European allies for shelling out more on Russian fossil fuels last year than on Ukraine’s war effort.
Then he pivoted to praise Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, spotlighting a letter he claimed Zelensky sent him.
“Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer,” Trump quoted, adding Zelensky’s supposed nod: “Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians…we do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.”
The Zelensky shoutout followed a public olive branch from the Ukrainian leader on X earlier that day, after a tense Oval Office dust-up last Friday where Vice President JD Vance had blasted Zelensky for not showing enough gratitude.
Trump, framing his speech as a quasi-State of the Union, capped it with a bold claim: he’s picked up “strong signals” from Russia that they’re “ready for peace.”
Trump’s night was vintage — taunting Warren with a smirk, pitching a peace-first vision, and casting himself as the dealmaker ready to end the bloodshed. Democrats like Warren may have clapped for Ukraine, but Trump’s betting his pause-and-negotiate play wins the bigger hand.
