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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    In all fairness, he calls all other countries “hellholes” or “shitholes”.

    But if you think everyone else is an asshole, then you’re the asshole.

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    Talk about calling the kettle black.

    India is a shitty country that has religious idiots, poor safety standards, garbage infrastructure, serious pollution problems, and overbearing leadership.

    America has religious idiots, garbage infrastructure, murderous police, and rights-stripping leadership trending toward fascist.

    There are differences, but both countries are shitholes in different ways.

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    A hellhole is this goddamn country where my elderly parents have to drive for DoorDash, in a car I’ve ‘lent’ them, or face homelessness.

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    Allways remember that the USA was the only a place the top gear crew was physically assaulted and hunted

    Edit: i stand corrected

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      Top Gear” cast, crew attacked in Argentina:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMiUUkmV5cA

      From Google search:

      In 2014, the Top Gear crew, including Jeremy Clarkson, was chased out of Argentina by angry locals throwing rocks, following outrage over a Porsche license plate (H982 FKL) deemed to mock the 1982 Falklands War

      I wouldn’t be surprised, Clarkson is the kind of asshole that would do exactly such a thing.

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      Guess you never saw the Argentina special.

      Or the Saudi Arabia one.

      Or the India.

      Or Vietnam.

      Or Burma.

      Or Albania.

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        I don’t remember them being hunted in the India or Vietnam episodes. The other ones I don’t think I have seen, but considering the false claims of those two, I am beginning to doubt the veracity of your comment.

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          They weren’t hunted, but they were attacked in Vietnam and India.

          Maybe you should watch them all. You can not believe if you want, but it just makes you look like an idiot. If you go around telling people nothing happened in Argentina people will think you are fucking clueless.

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    According to “Monkey see, monkey do”, turns out that USA is a hellhole. And yes, Donald Trump is a fucking monkey-brain.

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    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?

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      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.

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      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)

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      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.

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    Our leadership is so cucked they wont say a single word against trump himself

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    It only cost the livelihood of 260 million people, but the ISI has successfully joined hands with Mossad to put Trump on their payroll. And only for the purpose of publicly demeaning India /s