Democratic strategist Don Calloway slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE (D-Mass.) on Tuesday for taking a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage, calling the move "tone deaf" and an "unforced error."

"This is bad for Senator Warren, and it wasn't necessary. There's just no universe in which it's necessary," Calloway told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising."

"I think that the president really had taken the low ground over the last several years by calling her 'Pocahontas,' and people had decided that was a bad thing," he continued. "It's an unforced error the kind that which when you get to the place she's at, you don't need to make."

"It's tone deaf. I think that's the best thing you can say about it," he said.

Warren on Monday released a DNA test to the Boston Globe, which showed she had a distant Native American ancestor. She provided the tests to an expert genealogist who said the results "strongly support" Warren had a Native American ancestor, likely six to 10 generations ago.

The Cherokee Nation criticized Warren for releasing the test, calling the move "inappropriate."

President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE, who has mocked Warren on numerous occasions for saying she has Native American ancestry, praised the statement from the Cherokee Nation in a tweet and called Warren a fraud.

Thank you to the Cherokee Nation for revealing that Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is a complete and total Fraud! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2018

The move comes as speculation continues to swirl around whether Warren will decide to launch a 2020 presidential bid.

— Julia Manchester