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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts) Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:10 PM Nov 2017

Eric Trump compares Pocahontas insult to Disney profiting off Pocahontas movie

Eric Trump on Tuesday appeared to compare President Trump's comments calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) "Pocahontas" to Disney profiting off of a movie of the same name.

"The irony of an ABC reporter (whose parent company Disney has profited nearly half a billion dollars on the movie 'Pocahontas') inferring that the name is 'offensive' is truly staggering to me," Eric Trump tweeted Tuesday.

Link to tweet

His comments come after Trump called Warren "Pocahontas" during an event honoring Native American code talkers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eric-trump-compares-%e2%80%98pocahontas%e2%80%99-insult-to-disney-profiting-off-%e2%80%98pocahontas%e2%80%99-movie/ar-BBFSpw2?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

Eric Trump is a walking poster child as to why we need an inheritance tax.

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Eric Trump compares Pocahontas insult to Disney profiting off Pocahontas movie (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 OP

No Eric is the poster child for birth control. edbermac Nov 2017 #1

he keeps proving that hes the dumb one.... samnsara Nov 2017 #2

By that logic, there's nothing offensive in calling Trump "The Devil's Own" as that is Doodley Nov 2017 #3

All the comedians who make fun of Eric aren't exaggerating... Rhiannon12866 Nov 2017 #4

White supremacy lies on a continuum loyalsister Nov 2017 #5

It's staggering to me that he mixed up "inferring" with "implying". LisaM Nov 2017 #6

Someone's probably profiting off this too Eric underpants Nov 2017 #7

Or a box of rocks. murielm99 Nov 2017 #8

Here. Thor_MN Nov 2017 #9

Thanks! murielm99 Nov 2017 #10

edbermac

(15,947 posts)

1. No Eric is the poster child for birth control.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:16 PM

Nov 2017

samnsara

(17,635 posts)

2. he keeps proving that hes the dumb one....

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Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:22 PM

Nov 2017

Doodley

(9,124 posts)

3. By that logic, there's nothing offensive in calling Trump "The Devil's Own" as that is

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:25 PM

Nov 2017

the title of a 20th Century Fox movie.

Rhiannon12866

(206,016 posts)

4. All the comedians who make fun of Eric aren't exaggerating...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:26 PM

Nov 2017

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)

5. White supremacy lies on a continuum

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:30 PM

Nov 2017

I hate to admit it, but he is correct. Disney is one of several story sellers who have made millions off of a mythological account of a woman who was exploited, married and had children as a teenager, then died when she was 22 yrs old - in England.

Romanticizing her story as a moment when white colonizers and Native Americans found peace disregards the rest of her tragic story. One that was actually the very common experience of Native American women who were acquired in the name of peace.

LisaM

(27,830 posts)

6. It's staggering to me that he mixed up "inferring" with "implying".

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 28, 2017, 03:36 PM

Nov 2017

Didn't he go to some fancy schools?

(Note: I did look at his tweet and try to honestly discern if he actually meant 'inferring', but I came to the conclusion that he did not. YMMV).