{"id":603219,"date":"2026-04-24T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603219\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:51:12","slug":"india-voices-anger-after-trump-shares-comments-calling-it-a-hellhole-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603219\/","title":{"rendered":"India voices anger after Trump shares comments calling it a \u2018hellhole\u2019 | India"},"content":{"rendered":"

India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump<\/a> in which he shared comments that called the South Asian country a \u201chellhole\u201d.<\/p>\n

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

On Wednesday Trump posted a 4-page screed \u2013 apparently a transcription of remarks from conservative podcast host Michael Savage \u2013 that denounced the US constitutional right to citizenship of everyone born in the country.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 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,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n

Indian foreign ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal responded that the remarks were \u201cobviously uninformed, inappropriate and in poor taste\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey certainly do not reflect the reality of the India-US relationship, which has long been based on mutual respect and shared interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressman Ami Bera, a Democrat whose parents are Indian immigrants, called the post by Trump \u201coffensive, ignorant and beneath the dignity of the office he holds\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump, who was born into wealth and privilege, has never had to struggle the way so many immigrant families have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Hindu American Foundation, an advocacy group, said it was disturbed by the \u201chateful, racist screed\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEndorsing such rants as the president of the United States will further stoke hatred and endanger our communities, at a time when xenophobia and racism are already at an all-time high,\u201d it wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has made a sweeping crackdown on immigration<\/a> a signature policy, has taken aim at visas commonly used by Indian tech workers.<\/p>\n

He also for months maintained major tariffs on India<\/a> after he was angry that prime minister Narendra Modi<\/a> downplayed his mediation during a conflict between India and Pakistan<\/a>, which has avidly courted Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s sparring with India stands in contrast to decades of efforts by successive US presidents to avoid friction and build relations with the world\u2019s largest democracy, which US policymakers have seen as a counterweight to rival China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shared comments that called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-603219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}