The president’s crack Monday afternoon about “Pocahontas”—aka Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren—was classic Donald Trump.

The setting was inappropropriate: Trump was commemorating the Navajo Code Talkers in a ceremony in the Oval Office and was joined by three of the 13 surviving World War II veterans. The comment was immaterial to the event: “You were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in Congress who, they say, was here a long time ago,” Trump told the honorees. “They call her ‘Pocahontas.’” The point was—well, there was no point.