Brit Hume on Pocahontas Controversy: Trump ‘Wasn’t Very Gracious,’ ‘But I Don’t Think It’s Racist’

On Monday night, Brit Hume weighed in on the remarks President Trump made earlier in reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Trump took a lot of heat from his critics when at a White House event honoring Native American code talkers, he said that “we have a representative in Congress” and that she’s called “Pocahontas,” a nick name he had given Warren during the 2016 election.

Laura Ingraham told Hume she wasn’t sure why Trump had to bring her up at that moment and that it isn’t “2020 yet.” He agreed with her.

“I don’t think it was a very gracious thing for him to do and he does a lot of ungracious things ,” Hume said. “. Grace is not his strength. He’s ungenerous to people. He’s  constantly carping about people who are much smaller than he is. I’m not sure what that accomplishes.

He then expressed impassioned thoughts on critics who were labeling Trump’s jabs at Warren as “racist.”

“I don’t think it’s a threat and I don’t think it’s racist,” Hume continued. “That term is flung around with abandon today and it’s a tragedy. Because the great achievement of the civil rights movement, greater even than the important laws that were passed, were the consensus that it brought about that racism is wrong and not to be tolerated. And an overwhelming prohibitive majority of Americans feel that way. And for that term to be flung around with abandon is an abuse and there’s been too much of it.

Hume said Warren calling it a “racist slur” was unfair and wrong.

“She’s a big girl,” he added. “What he said is essentially harmless, if crude. My view of that… just move on.”

Ingraham called the incident “funny” but “probably not necessary.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.