Supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenOvernight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds On The Money: Half of states deplete funds for Trump's 0 unemployment expansion | EU appealing ruling in Apple tax case | House Democrats include more aid for airlines in coronavirus package Warren, Khanna request IG investigation into Pentagon's use of coronavirus funds MORE came out in defense of the Massachusetts lawmaker on Thursday after her colleague Sen. Mitt Romney Willard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyCrenshaw looms large as Democrats look to flip Texas House seat The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Republicans lawmakers rebuke Trump on election Trump dumbfounds GOP with latest unforced error MORE (R-Utah) referred to her as a professor in a tweet.

Warren's supporters helped push the phrase “Senator Warren” into Twitter’s top list of trending items after Romney criticized her "Medicare for All" plan, which some 2020 Democratic rivals have scrutinized in recent days.

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“Prof. Warren’s Medicare for All fails the test: Countries with socialized medicine make their numbers work through limits on care, cost sharing, and higher middle class taxes,” Romney wrote. “Pretending otherwise is inauthentic and disingenuous.”

Prof. Warren’s Medicare for All fails the test: Countries with socialized medicine make their numbers work through limits on care, cost sharing, and higher middle class taxes. Pretending otherwise is inauthentic and disingenuous. — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) November 7, 2019

While Warren has worked as a former law school professor — she taught at several universities before entering politics – supporters viewed Romney's tweet as minimizing her current standing as a fellow member of the Senate.

“It's SENATOR WARREN and pretending you've read it is inauthentic and disingenuous,” former MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor said in a tweet. Another social media user said Romney’s use of the term “seems like a diminutive term.”

It's SENATOR WARREN and pretending you've read it is inauthentic and disingenuous. https://t.co/2s6L2pE4aE — G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) November 7, 2019

Why are you calling Senator Warren, Prof. Warren? I usually give you the benefit of the doubt, but this seems like a diminutive term. I mean should we be calling you Former GOP Presidential Nominee Romney? Come on. Do better. — Darth Blair, 622 F. Supp. 931, 934 (D.D.C. 1985) (@blairyposa) November 7, 2019

Hundreds of others also chimed in on the matter, taking aim at Romney.

I think you’ll find that’s “Senator” Warren. No one refers to you as Mr. GrovelAtTrumpsFeetToGetAJobUntilHeHumiliatedYou https://t.co/3GkbnFiSZy — Sam Seder (@SamSeder) November 7, 2019

“Senator” Warren, please. Current title.



Unless you’d prefer to be called Failed Presidential Candidate Romney. — oh dear (@__ohdear__) November 7, 2019

The absolute audacity of not giving your COLLEAGUE the courtesy of the title you share. Shame on you. You can call her SENATOR Warren, until January 2021, when you can call her President. — Kendally Brown (@kendallybrown) November 7, 2019

Anyone else think that refusing to call her Senator Warren is disrespectful and unnecessarily petty? https://t.co/GECiTTsWar — Shane Frazier (@whattashane) November 7, 2019

Some also referred to a phrase the former GOP presidential nominee used during a debate in 2012, during which he said he had “binders full of women” who could serve in an eventual administration.

The phrase from Romney came after he was pressed during the debate against then-President Obama about workplace equality.

It’s Senator Warren but I guess it was professor when you made your binder full of women. https://t.co/xZagkdfMER — Phillip Henry (@MajorPhilebrity) November 7, 2019

Mitt Romney needs to update Senator Warren's title in his Binders Full of Women. https://t.co/X6q3u4Ic1o — (((Helaine Olen))) (@helaineolen) November 7, 2019

A spokesperson for Romney did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday about the social media reaction to his tweet.

Warren has faced some scrutiny among Democrats in recent days over her Medicare for All plan, with some Democratic senators telling The Hill this week they would not vote for her health care proposal if she were president in 2021.

Former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick Bloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida MORE has also criticized Warren's plan to fund the proposal while blasting her this week as a "my way or the highway" elitist after she accused him of running in the "wrong presidential primary."

"If someone doesn’t agree with you — it’s not just that you disagree — that person must be a coward or corrupt or a small thinker," Biden panned in a Medium post this week pushing back on recent attacks from Warren.

"Some call it the 'my way or the highway' approach to politics. But it’s worse than that. It’s condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view," he wrote. "It’s representative of an elitism that working and middle-class people do not share."