Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dismissed Donald Trump’s acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention as the words of a “two-bit dictator” in a special live taping of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Thursday.
“Every time you kind of scratch the surface a little bit and see what Donald Trump is really talking about, what he’s really talking about is what he’s talked about all his life and that is how to improve the world for Donald Trump,” Warren said in response to Trump’s marathon 75-minute speech.
The Massachusetts senator called this week’s gathering in Cleveland, which saw a former presidential candidate threatened by angry delegates and repeated calls for Hillary Clinton to be jailed, the “nastiest, most divisive convention that we’ve seen in half a century.”
Colbert asked how supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could be convinced to support a “Washington insider” like Clinton rather than drifting towards the billionaire businessman’s anti-establishment message.
Warren responded that Democrats envision a federal government that works for “all of us,” while Trump promotes the message that “what you need to be afraid of is every other American.”
“I’ve got to tell you, that speech tonight, he sounded like some two-bit dictator of some country that you couldn’t find on a map,” she said. “He sounded like a dictator of a small country rather than a man who is running for the highest office of the strongest democracy on the face of this earth.”
Warren, who has campaigned with Clinton and was vetted for vice president, also revealed that she would “probably not” be chosen as her running mate.
“I think if it were me, I’d know it by now,” she said.
Clinton is expected to announce her pick for VP on Friday.
Watch a clip of their interview below.
Trump: Mission accomplished. Even Pocahontas got it.
Thank you, Senator Warren! This also describes almost every single Republican alive today.
She exactly right. Again, the headlines across the board said it all:
American Nightmare…
H.W. Speechwriter: ‘Very Dark And Frightening’…
Garry Kasparov: Sounded Straight Out Of Russia…
David Duke: ‘Couldn’t Have Said It Better!’…
Speech Riddled With Inaccuracies…
Andrew Sullivan: ‘Massive Lies And Distortions, Crammed With Incoherence’…
Republicans Have Made A World-Historical Mistake…
I don’t know what a Vice-President nominee is supposed to do for the Prez nom. Excite the base? Calm the base? Provide geographic balance? Lock in a toss-up state? Cover for deficiencies of the candidate at the top of the ticket? Pay back a constiuency, mollify a group feeling left out or left behind in the race?
I can’t pretend to know what Clinton needs or will do. But a staid, old hand like Kaine doesn’t light any fires for me. Hillary is pretty tame, and undeniably an old hand, establishment to the core. She lawyered for the Watergate committee. I hope she injects some enthusiasm into the ticket with her pick, but signs seem to point to a conservative, safe pick. Like Kaine. My opinion that’ll represent a lost opportunity, a missed chance to bring younger, more left leaning Sanders type voters aboard. Does she really need a traditional, safe politician to attract the same voters she likely already appeals to?
I am the Fear and Greed candidate.