“Your reckless comments sound like a two-bit dictator,” Warren said in a follow-up tweet. “Not a man who wants to lead the greatest democracy on the planet.”

The Massachusetts senator tweeted that Trump “makes death threats because he’s a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.”

Elizabeth Warren slammed Donald Trump on Tuesday after he made controversial remarks about Hillary Clinton in North Carolina hours earlier.

.@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he's a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 9, 2016

Your reckless comments sound like a two-bit dictator, @realDonaldTrump. Not a man who wants to lead the greatest democracy on the planet. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 9, 2016

Warren’s angry rhetoric comes after Trump made remarks that seemed to imply that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Clinton from picking Supreme Court justices if she’s elected president.


“Hillary wants to abolish. . . the Second Amendment,” Trump said in Wilmington, N.C., before speaking about filling an empty seat on the Supreme Court. “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Other elected officials from Massachusetts also rushed Tuesday to condemn the GOP nominee for his remarks.

Senator Ed Markey called the comments “inflammatory” and said that Republicans should denounce Trump immediately.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey went one step farther, declaring, “Shame on you,” adding: “inciting and encouraging gun violence is a new low — even for you.”

Shame on you, @realDonaldTrump. Inciting and encouraging gun violence is a new low - even for you. -- https://t.co/bUbiHnEH8L — Maura Healey (@maura_healey) August 9, 2016

Trump’s comments also spurred the National Rifle Association to weigh in:

But there IS something we will do on #ElectionDay: Show up and vote for the #2A! #DefendtheSecond #NeverHillary — NRA (@NRA) August 9, 2016

Clinton’s campaign issued a statement shortly after, calling Trump’s remarks “dangerous.”

“This is simple — what Trump is saying is dangerous,” the statement said. “A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”

A statement from Trump’s campaign said that the real estate mogul’s comments were about the voting power of Second Amendment supporters.

“It’s called the power of unification — 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power,” wrote Jason Miller, senior communications advisor for Trump. “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.”


The Second Amendment to the US Constitution grants the “right of the people to keep and bear arms.”