Rob Lowe Deletes Elizabeth Warren Native American Joke Because ‘Some Peeps Got Upset’
Actor Rob Lowe tried to get in on the “fun” with Donald Trump by posting a “joke” about Massachusetts Senator and democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, but later deleted the joke, without apology, because “some peeps got upset.”
Trump has waged a campaign of slurs against Warren over her claim of Native American heritage, and following Warren’s campaign launch Saturday, tweeted a crack about the Trail of Tears.
But Trump wasn’t the only one playing Native Americans for laughs following Warren’s official launch. Lowe, known for roles in The West Wing and more recent television programs, tweeted that “Elizabeth Warren would bring a whole new meaning to Commander in ‘Chief’.”
The tweet drew significant backlash from other users:
Amplifying the hateful message of an openly racist President isn’t funny. The house is fine. Your material sucks. https://t.co/uszHS67EgE
— Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) February 10, 2019
And today is the day we learned definitively that Rob Lowe is not Sam Seaborn. pic.twitter.com/K89a9Rajqf
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) February 10, 2019
It’s a bad day to be a Parks & Rec fan between learning this and Rob Lowe’s racist joke. https://t.co/QsLSy9Xou1
— MATT MINER (@MattMinerXVX) February 10, 2019
It’s racist. If you can’t figure that out you’re probably a racist as well.
Also he filmed himself having sex with a child
— jon rosenberg??⚰ (@jonrosenberg) February 10, 2019
Lowe went on to delete the tweet, but did not apologize:
I deleted my Elizabeth Warren tweet. It was a joke and some peeps got upset, and that’s never my intention. On the GOOD side: I just got to use the Oxford comma!
— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) February 10, 2019
Fact check: he did not use an Oxford comma.
Hour later, Lowe appeared to complain about those “peeps” who got upset:
Observation: many polarizing politicians actually LIKE each other, privately help each other, then publicly stir the pot, playing for votes. That’s fine. Only thing wrong with it is when we buy it whole cloth, breeding intolerance, anger and total inability to laugh at ANYTHING.
— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) February 10, 2019
Mr. Lowe will appear later this year in the Netflix film Christmas in the Wild.
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