Fox News' Tucker Carlson calls Elizabeth Warren 'Lie-awatha' after DNA test

If President Trump ever gets tired of referring to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas, Tucker Carlson just offered him a bunch of offensive new nicknames.

The Fox News host during a segment on Monday night referred to Warren using a whole slate of Native American-themed insults, including "Lie-awatha," "Fake-agawea," and "Fraud-azuma," per Mediaite. This was in response to Warren saying she took a DNA test showing "strong evidence" of a distant Native American ancestor, after President Trump repeatedly referred to her as Pocahontas and suggested she had lied about having Native American ancestry.

Carlson wasn't impressed with Warren's DNA test, though, saying the results only show that she might be "about roughly as American Indian as every white person you've ever met, which is to say not American Indian at all." The Fox News host then said that Warren had appointed herself the "head of the #MeSioux movement" with these claims, having "leveraged" Native Americans' suffering to "climb the greasy pole of our fake meritocracy."

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Later in the show, Carlson also floated the idea that Warren may have paid The Boston Globe, which found "ethnicity was not a factor in her rise in law," for their coverage of her DNA test. He asked, "Are they taking payment directly from her or is it just a kind of moral payment?”