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Reuters Reporter Gets Slapped with a Brutal Fact-Check Over Trump's Swipe at Liz Warren

Matt Vespa
Matt Vespa  |  March 06, 2025 6:05 AM

You didn’t delete this? She did turn off the comments to avoid being taken to the cleaners for a laughably dense tweet during President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night.

Nandita Bose took umbrage with Trump calling Sen. Liz Warren (D-MA) ‘Pocahontas,’ taking a swipe at her and the Democrats for wanting to continue the war in Ukraine. 

“’Pocahontas’: First racial slur in a Joint Address,” she wrote. Except that’s not true, and it got a brutal lesson in facts and nuance in the community note that got slapped on this tweet. It’s not a racial slur, you prat: 

Trump did not call Sen. Warren "Pocahontas" because she is Native American. He called her that because she is not, but claimed to be. 

Sen. Warren apologized to the Cherokee Nation for attempting to use a DNA test to prove she had Native American heritage 6-10 generations ago. 

It then links to an NPR article. It’s pure gold. 

The ‘everything I don’t like is racist’ schtick is over, you clowns. Also, your behavior that night was appalling.