President Donald Trump called Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren a drug using “nut job” and demanded she take a drug test during an Oval Office appearance on Thursday to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act.
Trump’s comments came after a LindellTV reporter asked about Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders claiming the Trump administration would cut Social Security benefits.
“Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren continue to peddle the lie and the claim that you’re trying to cut Social Security despite your repeated promises to protect it. Why do you think they keep pushing this misinformation, and literally terrorizing the elderly in America that sadly keep watching the very misleading mainstream media?” the reporter asked.
“I love your question, I should have called you almost first,” Trump said.
He then launched into an attack on Warren over her decades of false claims about Native American heritage and her recent endorsement of New York City mayoral candidate, socialist Zohran Mamdani.
“It’s so vicious what they do. Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian. We call her ‘Pocahontas.’ She’s a liar. She lied her whole career. Based on the fact that she was Indian, she was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there. She’s a liar and a mean person. She’s a nut job,” Trump said.
“I watched her the other night. She was all hopped up, endorsing a communist in New York City. And she was all excited and jumping up and down,” Trump continued. “She’s gotta take a drug test! She really does, she’s gotta take a drug test. There’s no way somebody can act that way and be normal.”
Trump also criticized Warren’s actions regarding banks in the midwest, claiming she had “put ’em out of business” and calling her “a mean, horrible human being.”
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.@POTUS: "Elizabeth Warren said she was an Indian. We call her Pocahontas—she's a liar… I watched her the other night, she's all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City, and she was all excited and jumping up and down. She's gotta take a drug test, she really does."🤣 pic.twitter.com/cqpz5pkNse
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 14, 2025
The president was more favorable toward Sanders, despite their political differences.
“Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders. I don’t mind him so much. He’s just a liberal guy, very liberal guy, wacky guy. He’s still sharp. I got to tell you, you know, he’s 86, or 87, or something,” ,” Trump said.
“He’s still sharp. You compare that to Joe Biden … So I don’t mind Bernie Sanders. With him, you know what you’re getting.”
In an op-ed for Fox News earlier this year, Warren said the Trump administration was attacking the Social Security system and implied he would cut it completely.
“We shouldn’t be cutting Social Security services and threatening Americans’ benefits – we should be making the program stronger. People are struggling with sky-high prices while their retirement savings are evaporating,” Warren wrote.
The feud between Trump and Warren goes back years. Warren self-falsely claimed to have Native American heritage on applications to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
After Trump repeatedly mocked her claims, Warren released DNA test results in 2018 that showed she was only 1/512th Native American — below the average of an American citizen.
Trump publicly called Warren “Pocahontas” during a speech to a joint session of Congress earlier this year. Warren clapped and nodded during the reference, and said later that it proves she “actually hit a nerve” with her criticism of Trump.