Foreign ministry calls remarks of rightwing podcast host shared by Trump ‘uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste’

India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shared comments that called the South Asian country a “hellhole”.

The inflammatory post on Truth Social comes ahead of a planned visit next month to India by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is seeking to ease recent tensions between the normally friendly powers.

On Wednesday Trump posted a 4-page screed – apparently a transcription of remarks from conservative podcast host Michael Savage – that denounced the US constitutional right to citizenship of everyone born in the country.

Without evidence, the post accused Indian immigrants in the tech industry of not hiring white native-born Americans and inaccurately alleged that Indian immigrants lack English proficiency. Trump also posted a video of Savage delivering those comments to his podcast audience.

  • Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish
    101·
    8 days ago

    Living in India there were two kinds of visitors: one was in awe of the culture and architecture, the other spent the entire time complaining about how dirty and different everything was. Guess which camp Trump would have belonged to?

    • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      I visited India in November. The only things I liked were the sights, like Charminar, Golkonda Fort, loved it.

      Every fucking thing else, and I mean everything was awful. The air was bad, trash choking literally every waterway, stray cows, dogs, cats, sifting through trash for food, the drivers — holy shit street lights are not suggestions guys. First hotel I stayed in literally had rats fighting in the walls.

      Food was good, until it made me so violently ill I had to call the trip off. People were very friendly, actually I should mention this — I didn’t have any bad experiences with the people (aside from the conditions they live in). Literally all of them tried to scam me though, like literally every single vendor that did not have fixed pricing.

      All of this to say, fuck India I’m never going back — at least not while Modhi is still killing climate protestors.

      • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        like literally every single vendor that did not have fixed pricing.

        There’s no such thing as a fixed price on the streets of India. You’ve gotta understand that that society is still essentially stuck in medieval times. That means no tax on most things, but also that he who haggles the best can get the biggest discount.

        Oddly enough, the absence of a fixed price is a concept Western corporations are trying to bring back.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      Ngl, nothing I’ve seen about India gives me any desire to visit there. From travel videos I’ve watched, it just looks like too many people, lots of scammers in the streets, and it just looks like a clusterfuck when it comes to roads and transit. I also don’t really care for Indian food mainly for what it does to my gastrointestinal system, and second I’m not super in love with the taste. There are a handful of things I really like, but eating it daily does not sound appealing (my stomach can only take so much). Having said that, the US is turning into a “hellhole” in front of our eyes for one fucking reason, so the orange doesn’t have a leg to stand on here (as usual)

      • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Ngl, nothing I’ve seen about India gives me any desire to visit there.

        It would be if you only watch ragebait videos. Some places there are indeed quite bad, but others (Mumbai, Bangalore) are fairly normal. And by the way, “Western” food does exist there, it isn’t like people are being fed curry exclusively everyday.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        America for the most part on a day to day basis hasn’t really changed at all.

        Its mostly our politics, and largest city that have experienced the most change. But you go to any rural area and it’s exactly as racist or nice or pretty or shitty as it was 20+ years ago.

        America does really well as insulating it self from it self. Covid had more impact on daily life then anything trump has done generally speaking. While the expections to that are absolutely truly massive single points tho. Like truely massive.

        So it’s a weird problem.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      I’d love to see the Baha’i Lotus Temple some day. I’ve seen pictures and it looks even more lovely than the one in Wilmette, IL, US.