US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a clarification over his “hellhole” remark on India. In a statement issued by…
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a clarification over his “hellhole” remark on India. In a statement issued by the US Embassy in New Delhi, Trump said that India is a “great country” and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “very good friend”
“The President has said, ‘India is a great country with a very good friend of mine at the top’,” a US Embassy spokesperson said.
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The clarification came shortly after a reaction from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. The MEA spokesperson said that he has “seen some reports” about Trump’s remarks and “that’s where I leave it.”
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Trump’s clarification and the MEA response came after the US President apparently endorsed American radio host Michael Savage’s racist rant and reposted his letter on Truth Social, which referred to India, China, and other nations as “hellholes”.
What the letter Trump reposted said about India?
In the letter calling for amendments to the United States’ Birthright Citizenship law, Savage alleged that people from India, China, and other “helllholes” come to the US in the ninth month of their pregnancy and give birth to a child who becomes an instant citizen.
“A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet. You don’t have to go too far to see that. English is not spoken here anymore. That there’s almost no loyalty to this country amongst the immigrant class coming in today, which was not always the case,” Savage wrote in the letter reposted by the US President.
Referring to a Supreme Court hearing where a Chinese-American attorney was arguing in favour of what he called “flooding America with illegal aliens,” Savage alleged that the US is being overrun with Chinese and Indians coming here just to “drop a baby on our shores” and then bring in the entire family.
He said that these immigrants are “destroying our national identity” and want to turn America into a colony of China and India.
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