mediaite | On Tuesday night, Trevor Noah took on the “Pocahontas” controversy and made a surprising conclusion.
The Daily Show host took on President Trump‘s “disrespectful” remarks at the White House ceremony honoring Native American code talkers when he made reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) using his nickname for her.
Noah called the feud between Trump and Warren a “tricky one to
process” because his nicknames for other people like “Low-Energy” Jeb Bush, “Little” Marco Rubio, and “Lyin'” Ted Cruz are more self-explanatory than “Pocahontas.”
“When he says ‘Pocahontas,’ you might be thinking, ‘Trevor, I’m confused. Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?'” Noah asked. “And you see, that’s the question. Because for a long time, she said she was.”
He then played numerous news clips that explain that without any
proof, Warren claimed to have Native American heritage and that minority
status helped her get a job at Harvard University, which they touted
their “diversity” with her employment.
“Wow,” Noah reacted. “How white is your college that when you get
called out for being too white, your response is, ‘Nuh-uh, we’ve got
her!'”
He then mocked her recipe contributions to a 1984 Native American cookbook called Pow Wow Chow and
pointed out that the New England Genealogical Society found “no proof”
that Warren had Native American lineage, which Noah called “problematic”
because she wrote for Pow Wow Chow.
“I mean, that would be like finding out I’m completely white, I have no African blood, and yet I wrote the book Snacks For Blacks,” Noah quipped.
Noah concluded that while Trump “is racist,” but he’s hitting Warren
for saying she’s Native American when she wasn’t, something he noted she
“never apologized for or owned up to.”
“Elizabeth Warren did something problematic, the kind of thing we
rightfully call each other out for every single day,” Noah continued.
“So as weird as it is to say, in his own racially offensive way, Donald
Trump was being woke. Yeah, and that’s unfortunately the truth.”
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