Trump: Warren's "psychiatrist" knows he thinks he can win the White House in 2020

In an exclusive interview broadcast Monday evening night at the Fox News special "American New Year", President Trump has suggested that only the "psychiatrist" of Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren knows he thinks he can win the White House in 2020.

Warren announced Monday that she was preparing an exploratory committee of the president, thus becoming the first candidate to take a decisive step in the presidential race for 2020.

Fox News's Pete Hegseth asked Warren if Warren was actually thinking that she could make him a president with a warrant.

"Well, that I do not know," Trump replied. "You should ask his psychiatrist."

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Warren, a liberal firefighter who rose during the financial crisis of 2008, has angered many Democratic and Socialist groups. Leading Native Americans in October publishing inconclusive DNA test results in response to Trump's claims that she repeatedly lied about her legacy to gain positive-action benefits during her university career.

The Cherokee Nation reacted to the results by stating that "a DNA test was useless for determining tribal citizenship." And Kim TallBear, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, remarked that Warren's "very desire to locate a claim to Native American identity in a DNA marker inherited from an ancestor Long-time is a colonial racial understanding of what is a Native American Indian. "

" Elizabeth Warren will be first, "Trump told He Gseth in the telephone interview. "She very badly proved that she was of Indian descent, it did not work very well."

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According to Warren's DNA analysis, "the vast majority" of the family tree Warren is European and there is "solid evidence" of his Native American ancestry "about 6 to 10 generations ago". As reported by the Boston Globe, this means that it could be between / 64 and 1/1 024 Native Americans.

"I think you have more than her, and maybe me too, and I have nothing," said Trump, referring to tribal heritage. she does. I wish him good luck, I hope that she will come out well, I would like to run against her. "

Trump repeatedly mocked Warren for claiming to have Native American ancestry." At a rally in July, he joked that he would pull out a heritage kit. during a hypothetical presidential debate with Warren and launch it slowly, "hoping it does not hit her and does not hurt her arm, even though it probably weighs only two ounces."

Separately, Trump once again urged the best Democrats to join him in Washington to solve the current partial blockage of the federal government – but he said that a border wall is an essential element of any deal.

bipartisan proposal to end the closure proposed by key senators is to provide $ 5.7 billion in funding for the border wall, as well as the re-authorization by Congress of the DACA program (deferred action for childcare) of the Obama era for the benefit of people illegally brought to the United States in their childhood, as well as other immigration provisions. There was also talk of a special allowance allowing certain categories of Central American refugees to obtain a more robust asylum status.

"I'm in Washington, I'm ready, willing and able, I'm in the White House, I'm ready to go," said Trump. He added that House Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer "can come now, they could have come anytime."

The President pointed out that he was canceling his plans to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays at his retirement from Mar-a-Lago Florida due to the partial closure of the site, and indicated that he remained concerned about the approximately 800,000 federal employees affected by leave and understaffing.

"I spent Christmas at the White House, I spent New Year's Eve at the White House," Trump said. "And you know, I'm here, I'm ready to go, it's very important, a lot of people are looking for their salary, so I'm ready to leave whenever they want."

He adds: "No, we do not give in. We need to have border security and the wall is an important part of border security – most of it."

Chad Pergram and Alex Pappas of Fox News have contributed to this report.