Vice President JD Vance made a rude and racially charged jab at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after she celebrated the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
The Massachusetts Democrat praised the pause in hostilities and the prisoner exchange and called for a two-state solution to resolve the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestine after President Donald Trump and other world leaders signed a declaration for bringing peace to Gaza.
“For two excruciating years, I have called for the return of the hostages brutally kidnapped on October 7th and held in Gaza,” Warren posted on X . “Today is a good day. Surviving Israeli hostages are finally home and reuniting with loved ones. I’m thinking of them and their families on this joyful day and praying for their full recovery.”
“We must end the war in Gaza, surge humanitarian aid, and negotiate a two-state solution now," the senator added.
Warren's post set off howls of protest among conservatives, with right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly calling her "so gross" and demanding she admit out loud that "Trump did it," and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) saying, "Perhaps the words you’re looking for are ‘thank you, President Trump."
But Vance made his attack even more personal.
“The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you," the vice president posted.
Trump has slurred the senator as "Pocahontas" for nearly his entire political career, in apparent reference to her claim to have Native American heritage.
Warren claimed partial Native American heritage while teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard law schools decades ago, which Trump and other conservatives mocked as untrue. She released DNA test results in 2018 showing she had Native American ancestry dating back six to 10 generations.
Trump insisted the results were "bogus" at the time, and Warren eventually issued an apology to the Cherokee Nation after its leaders issued a statement saying that "using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong."
The president actually rolled back Joe Biden's 2021 presidential proclamation of Indigenous People’s Day last week, with his own declaration restoring the second Monday in October as Columbus Day to honor Christopher Columbus as a “giant of Western civilization.”
