President Donald Trump said Thursday that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has “got to take a drug test” when asked about her claims that he’s trying to cut Social Security. The remark came during a White House event celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act. Trump said he plans to strengthen the program “for generations to come.”
“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,” Trump said. “Based on the fact that she was an Indian, she was able to get into certain colleges, get certain jobs, get into certain universities to work there. And she’s a liar and a mean person.”
“She’s a nutjob. 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,” Trump said, referring to Warren’s support for democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. “She’s got to take a drug test. She really, though, she’s got to take a drug test. There’s no way somebody can act that way and be normal.”
Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, wrote an op-ed for Fox News earlier this year claiming the Trump administration is attacking Social Security “like it has never been before.” She pointed to remarks from Trump officials and allies as evidence.
“Billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said seniors won’t complain if they miss a Social Security check. Elon Musk called Social Security the ‘world’s biggest Ponzi scheme.’ Musk then sent his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to gut the agency by indiscriminately firing workers, closing down offices, and trying to cut phone services,” Warren wrote.
“We shouldn’t be cutting Social Security services and threatening Americans’ benefits – we should be making the program stronger,” she added. “People are struggling with sky-high prices while their retirement savings are evaporating. We need a temporary increase in benefits right now to give people some relief. We should also protect the long-term security of the system by lifting the cap on the amount millionaires and billionaires pay into Social Security, which would also yield enough money to permanently expand benefits.”
Trump also highlighted actions his administration has taken regarding Social Security. “We’ve already kicked nearly 275,000 illegal aliens off of the Social Security system,” he said. “These are people – many of them have already left the country. And yet we were sending them checks all the time. And what that’s doing is making the system strong. It’s making it strong. Biden never kicked anybody off. Everybody joined.”