Trump threatens Warren with death by ‘Pocahontas,’ again by jerryadler
Donald Trump, according to observers who have studied him closely, is not much given to deep reflection, self-analysis, second thoughts or doubts about his own genius. But in a revealing moment during last week’s rally in Manchester, N.H., he uncharacteristically suggested that he might have made a mistake early in the year by prematurely deploying his strongest weapon against Sen. Elizabeth Warren: the insult nickname “Pocahontas.
On Monday, Warren, appearing at the Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, gave a well-received apology for her earlier claims to Cherokee descent, based on family legend. It’s still remarkable to look back on how Trump effectively built his campaign, and his governing style, around insults, both to entire nationalities and individual rivals, including “Little Marco Rubio” and “Low-Energy Jeb Bush.” Nearly a year before the 2016 election, the New York Times analyzed more than 4,000 tweets he had sent in the six months since he had entered the race, and “of those, we found that one in every eight was a personal insult of some kind,” the newspaper wrote.
But with enough repetition, the barb loses its sting, as he seemed to sense about “Pocahontas.” And sometimes the insults are so obscure, irrelevant or generic — did he expect voters to reject “Little Marco Rubio” because of his height, or Carly Fiorina because of her looks? — that they seem to express less a coherent strategy than his personal need to dominate. Trump exemplifies the saying that it’s not enough to win; others have to lose. And not merely lose, but feel bad about it.
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