Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Donald Trump's 'Pocahontas' Playbook

The presumptive GOP nominee has a history with Native Americans.

June 30, 2016 at 6:11 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

It's a complicated history.
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Donald Trump has had some fun lately with Elizabeth Warren’s self-proclaimed Native American ancestry.

“Pocahontas is not happy, she’s not happy,” he said of Warren a few weeks ago. He re-upped on Monday, telling NBC News that Warren “made up her heritage, which I think is racist.”