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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.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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)

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I get it, just not my thing..